Bridget grew up with privilege, while Will has always lived on the financial edge. He has a mansion near Bridget’s ramshackle country escape from her apartment on the Upper West Side. They are not and never were.īridget is the daughter of Edward Stratton, a world-famous composer and conductor. People assume they are and have always been a couple. They are the mainstays in the midst of ever-changing violinists. All that was missing was the slamming of doors.”īridget is part of the musical group the Forsyth Trio, founded with pianist Will, her schoolmate at Julliard. As Bridget’s daughter observes: “Noel Coward, thought Isabelle, could spruce up this scene, get it stage-ready. Musical Chairs is part Feydeau farce and part hit sitcom and part British drawing room comedy, the comparison being inspired by the entertaining and satisfying qualities the novel shares with these styles of storytelling. And she’s about to have quite a summer in her country house in Connecticut.
Fast-forward more than two-and-a-half decades, and Bridget is the mother of twins Isabelle and Oscar. The Prelude, as the reader is informed, happened 27 years ago, on the day Bridget is to conceive, either the usual way or via artificial insemination. A whodunit isn’t just an effective way to engage readers in a mystery, as Amy Poeppel shows in her entirely charming new novel, Musical Chairs.
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