Jessica Duchen writes for and about music, encompassingfiction, biography, journalism, plays, narrated concerts and opera librettos (notably Roxanna Panufnik’s Silver Birch at Garsington Opera, 2017). She was classical music correspondent for theIndependent from 2004 to 2016 and has written for the Guardian, the SundayTimes, the Observer and BBC Music Magazine. Her biographies of the composersGabriel Fauré and Erich Wolfgang Korngold have met with wide acclaim and hernovel Ghost Variations ( 2016) was chosen by John Suchet in the Daily Mail as his Best Read of 2016.Jessica was born in London and studied music at Cambridge. She lives in Londonwith her violinist husband.