Romance, mystery and danger against a
background of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
Summer

A novel by Emily-Jane Hills Orford

Summer is the sequel to the popular novel, Spring published by PublishAmerica (2006). For more information, check out the author’s website at: www3.sympatico.ca/mistymo

In 1725, Antonio Vivaldi wrote the music for The Four Seasons.  He penned a poem for each of the four seasons: Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer.  Each season has its reason, its significance, its purpose, its own symbolism.  Life is like the four seasons. Summer is but one of the seasons of the year; one of the seasons of Vivaldi’s masterpiece The Four Seasons. Summer is the story of Hope Jones, a young Gitxsan fiddler from northern British Columbia, Canada. Hope has a rare musical talent and what everyone believes is a very valuable Stradivarius violin. Is it the mysterious missing ‘Juliet’? As Hope grows and matures in her music, she learns more about her violin, the romance and mystery that surrounds it and the very dangerous family that continually threatens her in their attempts to claim it. Hope’s life follows the four seasons of Vivaldi’s music, much like life unfolds through the seasons. Summer is but one story in Vivaldi’s musical journey.
           
Summer is the sequel to the popular novel, Spring published by PublishAmerica (2006). For more information, check out the author’s website at: www3.sympatico.ca/mistymo

Emily-Jane Hills Orford

About the author

Emily-Jane Hills Orford was born in Toronto, Ontario. She is a second generation Canadian who is proud of her Canadian roots and her growing-up years in southwestern Ontario. Her stories and novels reflect her national pride. She has lived in many communities across Canada before finally settling in Nepean, Ontario. Emily-Jane holds degrees from the University of Western Ontario, Carleton University and the Royal Conservatory of Music. She divides her time between her growing and ever-busy family, her music studio where she teaches over 40 students and her writing. She has worked as a researcher and article writer for the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (2005). Other writing accomplishments include countless articles, short stories, children’s picture books about artists, musicians and Canadian personalities, and, her most recent accomplishments, two novels, Spring (2005), and Ukulele Yukon (2006), a collection of edited letters, Letters From Inside: The Notes and Nuggets of Margaret Marsh (2006), and a collection of Canadian short stories, It Happened in Canada (2007). Emily-Jane believes in writing about Canada; but she also enjoys writing about the culture of Canada, its wonderful resources in music and the arts. For more information about the author, check her website at: www3.sympatico.ca/mistymo
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