-Riveting and revelatory.- Philip Pullman
-Wonderfully vivid and touching.- Literary Review
-Warm, wise and unflinching.- Sunday Times
-Witty and heartfelt.- Financial Times
Stephen Hough is indisputably one of the world-s leading pianists, winning global acclaim and numerous awards.
Enough recounts his unconventional coming-of-age story, from his beginnings in an unmusical home in Cheshire to the main stage of the Carnegie Hall in New York, aged just twenty-one.
-Hough writes like a dream, with an almost Alan Bennett-like eye and ear for the sights and sounds of childhood.- Dan Cairns, Sunday Times
-A memoir that is by turn audacious, harrowing, joyous, moving and funny . . . Hough [has a] brilliant ear for language, for rhythm, for silence.- Harriet Smith, Gramophone
-An endearingly humorous, entrancingly lyrical writer.- Peter Conrad, Observer
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