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Harriet Constable is a journalist, filmmaker and author based in London. Her journalism and documentary work has featured in outlets including the New York Times, BBC, Guardian, The Times, Financial Times, NPR, and the Economist. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s School of Journalism summer school and is a Pulitzer Center grantee and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. harrietconstable.com @HConstable
I was swept away by this searing portrait of ambition and betrayal. Occasionally a book arrives which not only moves but performs a vital function: and The Instrumentalist restores Anna Maria's name as she deserves, removing her from the forgotten annals of history -- ELIZABETH MACNEAL, author of the Sunday Times-bestselling The Doll Factory An immersive, impassioned tale full of colour and sound * OBSERVER * Enthralling, passionate, vivid. The Instrumentalist is a marvel -- KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE, author of The Heresies and The Dance Tree With a heroine at once so very fierce and yet so vulnerable, The Instrumentalist is an insightful study of female talent and ambition – and how easily they can be hi-jacked or undermined by men -- ANNIE GARTHWAITE, author of Cecily The debut novelist Harriet Constable travels to eighteenth-century Venice in The Instrumentalist, which is based on the true story of Anna Maria della Pietà, a student of Antonio Vivaldi * NEW STATESMAN, Fiction to look out for in 2024 * An intriguing tale ... A fascinating story of music, ambition, and womanhood in eighteenth-century Venice ... In The Instrumentalist, the Venetian Republic is a character in its own right, amid the glory and decadence of its final century. -- CHARMAINE WILKERSON, author of the New York Times-bestselling Black Cake An epic novel set in eighteenth-century Venice and based on the real life of Anna Maria della Pietà who, taught by Vivaldi, went on to become the leading pop star of her day. She's since been written out of history. Until now * BBC, Book releases 2024 *
