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Claire is a born loner, although she dreams of becoming a professional concert pianist. She has few friends and feels hounded by the expectations placed on her by her family. She fears she will not be loved just as she is unless she has something to prove. This forces her into a position of becoming a perfectionist to the point of being obessed with her music, to the exclusion of anything else.
At university she meets an art tutor, David, who has seperated from his wife due to the pressure on the family of caring for a 14 year old step daughter, Rosie, who has schizophrenia and a history of self harming. The relationship between David and Rosie pushes way beyond the normal boundaries, resulting in Melanie, David's wife, who is Rosie's main carer, experiencing a nervous breakdown herself. Claire knows nothing of David's background or the fact that David will turn her life totally upside -down, resulting in tragedy.
"The Musical Paintbox is written in an extremely poignant and sesitive manner. The writer uses fiction as a tool to reveal how people with mental health issues really feel about life, their conditions, or should we say experiences, and the world around them."- Jason Pegler, author and founder of Chipmunka Publishing "The Musical Paintbox is a story which opens up like a Pandora's box of painful melodic writings. It is a wonderful prose that plays a poignant song in your head and paints a touching sadness onto your heart. Each word, each note has its own colour, its own emotion, and Fiona conducts it beautifully in her writing. Listen, look and touch and this book will both enchant and pain you in symphonic tenderness. An exceptional read."- Dolly Sen, writer, poet and human rights activist
