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Quartet for the End of Time: On Music, Grief and Birdsong by Michael Symmons Roberts #literature or just because'This is a rich, lively, profound book' ROWAN WILLIAMS A personal reckoning with grief, doubt, faith and poetry set to one of the most celebrated musical works of the twentieth century, from the award winning poet and librettist. The story goes like this: on a freezing winter night in 1941, a new piece of chamber music was performed to a crowd of prisoners of war on a three stringed cello, clarinet, violin and pub piano with sticky keys. It was the