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• Winter music
  Set in the Philadelphia classical music scene of the late 1970s, Karen Rile’s first and only novel concerns gay concert flautist Lawrence Chatterjee, whose performance career has been cut short following an accident, and child flute prodigy Gabriel, who also loves Kool-Aid and the Beatles. Rile herself studied flute at university level, before going on to become a writer and journalist for publications including ‘The New York Times’, ‘The San Francisco Chronicle’ and ‘The Philadelphia Enquirer’, and her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in several literary magazines. She teaches fiction and creative nonfiction at the University of Pennsylvania.