By Bridie Byrne
FORMER pianist Cecilia Conwaye-Wright never taught her students at a music studio behind a lingerie store.
But this tale of intrigue will be the plot of her twelfth novel.
Cecilia said the set up looked innocent from the outside, but behind closed doors nothing is, as it seems.
The proprietors of the store are organised criminals taking advantage of their customers.
The Hoppers Crossing author said the book was fictitious, but was loosely based on her days as a piano instructor.
She recently retired after 50 years of private tutorials.
“In this old town, a teacher is driven to set up a music studio,” she said.
“The teacher is responsible for the welfare of the kids among the various dodgy goings-on on in the store.”
The book titled Wild Wild Hawthorn is the name of the perfume, which is weaved through the story line.
“The Wild Hawthorn is an expensive perfume and could turn the heads of all who come near and while there are plenty of laughs in the book, it also tells its serious side of repressive family attitudes,” she said.
Cecilia said the 200-page turner took just four weeks to write, but two years of redrafts before the book was published.
The novel is on sale at Collins Booksellers in the Werribee Plaza.
The book launch will take place at the Church of the Epiphany on 13 June from 11.30am.
