To Tell You the Truth

Leonard Merrick's 'To Tell You the Truth' is a novel that paints a vivid portrait of youthful aspirations and the arduous road to artistic mastery. Through the character of Marie Lamande, the reader experiences the trials of a prodigious pianist shaped under the rigid conventions of early 20th-century discipline. Merrick's prose is both elegant and evocative, capturing the zeitgeist of the era wit...