An Evening With Daniel Mason

The South China Morning Post presents an evening with author/medical student Daniel Mason, who will discuss his debut novel. The Piano Tuner is set in the autumn of 1886, when grey-haired, bespectacled, 41-year-old piano tuner, Edgar Drake, is summoned by the British War Office and given an unlikely mission: to travel to Burma, where his services are required to tune a rare Erard grand piano. Flattered and intrigued, Drake accepts and sets off on an adventure that takes him deep into the uncolonised jungle. The novel was inspired by Mason's year-long stint studying malaria on the Thai-Myanmar border in 1988. Today, 6.30pm. Helena May, Central. $80 for students, seniors, Dymocks Booklovers, and members of WiPS and the Writers' Circle, $120 for others. Registration and inquiries: [email protected]