Synopsis
Benjamin Britten - A Biography
Published by Faber & Faber
"If there has been a better biography of a musician, I've yet to read it" - Nicholas Hytner
"The panorama of British musical life since the 1920s is laid before us with immense skill ... Carpenter has perfomed a brilliant feat of literary viruosity. I cannot imagine how it could have been done better" - Michael Kennedy
Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for 1992