Leah Broad’s magnificent group biography resurrects the forgotten voices of four extraordinary women, recounting lives of rebellion, heartbreak and ambition, and celebrating their musical masterpieces. In their time, these women were celebrities. They composed some of the century’s most popular music and pioneered creative careers; but today, they are ghostly presences, surviving only as muses and footnotes to male contemporaries like Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Britten – until now. Lighting up a panoramic sweep of British history over two World Wars, Quartet revolutionises the canon forever.
