The new book from Heather Morris, the internationally bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, is out now. Inspired by real events, The Piano Teacher of Montparnasse takes place in occupied Paris during the Second World War. When the Nazis come to arrest her Jewish family, an eleven-year-old girl manages to flee to the only person she can trust: her piano teacher, Andrée Levallois. Andrée takes her in without question and risks everything in her determination to protect the young girl.

Heather Morris first heard of this true story from the world-renowned composer Hans Zimmer, who wrote the score for the television adaptation of The Tattooist of Auschwitz alongside Kara Talve. At Hans’s encouragement, Heather asked Kara about her grandmother’s piano, and what followed was an astonishing account of her grandmother’s survival of the war, made possible only by the extraordinary determination and courage of her piano teacher.

Now Heather and Kara bring this beautiful novel, the story of Kara’s grandmother, Josie, and Andrée Levallois, The Piano Teacher of Montparnasse, to readers.