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Harriet Constable is an award-winning journalist, writer and filmmaker based in London.
Her debut novel, The Instrumentalist, inspired by the true story of Anna Maria della Pietà, who was an orphan, musical prodigy and student of one of the greatest Baroque composers of all time, Antonio Vivaldi.
The Instrumentalist tells the story of the orphans of Venice who overcame destitution and abuse to make music, and whose contributions to some of the most important works of classical music, including The Four Seasons, have been overlooked by history for too long.
