The Long Way Down to Morning · Pulse Beat

A young violinist's hand begins to fail on the eve of the biggest competition of her life. Ambition, pain, the bottom, and the slow way back. A novel in thirty chapters. A work of fiction.

Anika Rao has practised six hours a day since she was nine. On the evening before the final of an international violin competition, the third finger of her left hand will not do what she tells it. This is the story of what ambition costs, how far down a person can go, and how long the way back to morning is. A work of fiction: the people and places are invented.