Every Valley : The Story of Handel’s Messiah

by King, Charles | United Kingdom, Great Britain
Published 07/11/2024 by Vintage Publishing (The Bodley Head Ltd) in the United Kingdom
Hardback | 352 pages
242 x 161mm | 605g

Every Valley is the cinematic and moving true story that lies behind the creation of one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, Handel's Messiah.

‘A mesmerizing journey [through] one of the most fascinating and creative moments in human history’ AMANDA FOREMAN‘Unforgettable. A delicious history of music, power, love, genius, royalty and adventure’ SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORELondon, 1741.

An actress mired in scandal plans her escape from an abusive husband.

A penniless sea captain sets out to rescue the city’s abandoned infants.

An African Muslim and former captive in the colonies becomes a celebrity.

A grieving political dissident seeks release from his torment.

And a great composer to kings – George Frideric Handel – now ill and straining to keep an audience’s attention, faces a decision that will secure his place in history.

Evoking a pivotal moment at the birth of modernity, a time of fear, conspiracy and uprising, and featuring some of the most unusual and brilliant personalities of the eighteenth century, Every Valley is a resonant story of hope in the darkness and the entangled lives that shaped a masterpiece.

‘A book of power and glory, brimming with emotion and dazzling in its reach’ STACY SCHIFF