Advance Praise for The Rose Variations: "The Rose Variations is an elegant symphony of a novel, shaped by a lovely complexity, informed by humor and grace. Congratulations to Marisha Chamberlain for her fine debut."—Roxana Robinson, author of Cost "In this richly absorbing novel Chamberlain creates a heroine so vivid, so complex, so passionate that she walks right off the page and into the reader's mind and heart. I loved following Rose through her various vicissitudes, romantic and musical, and through her many relationships with friends, colleagues, students and lovers. The Rose Variations is one of those rare novels that captures the complexity of a life lived over time, and does so in beautiful, eloquent prose. A brilliant debut."—Margot Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street "Rose MacGregor is my kind of heroine—funny and serious, dreamy but brutally practical when it's called for; someone blissfully...