Linnet

An English novel. In the Ziller valley, in the Tyrol, two young Englishmen on their travels, Will Deverill, a poet and musician, and his friend Florian Wood, an affected aesthete, discover Linnet, a young cowherd from the mountain pasture who sings with an exceptional voice. The village innkeeper, Andreas Hausberger, her master and singing teacher, means to make her an opera singer and to marry her; Franz Lindner, a jealous young hunter, is courting her too. From the mountain pastures to the opera stage, a story of love and ambition told with humour.