Barbara T. Carlton
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Barbara Carlton is a retired architect and author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She has always loved music. She studied piano for fourteen years but is living proof that an art should never be left neglected for too long. Now, in its place she volunteers for both San Diego Opera and the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival in Washington, and writes, among other things, novels about music. She lives in San Diego, California, with her husband, Barry, and is the mother of two grown children.
The Well-Tempered Violinist, Book I of The Gift quadrilogy, is her first novel.
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The Gift: Book 1 The Well-Tempered Violinist
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Historical Fiction
Marthe Adler dreams of making history as a great violinist. But in 1905 Germany, tradition and deep-seated prejudice against women musicians stand in her way. Worse, her beloved father’s sudden death shatters her family’s comfortable life, pushing them to the edge of poverty. But the violin Marthe’s father left her is a reminder of the profound bond between them, and with its help she begins to heal. When the Köln Conservatory offers her an unexpected scholarship, she seizes her chance to reach for the dream she thought she had lost for good. Filled with heart, wit, and music, The Well-Tempered Violinist is an enduring coming-of-age story about striving for greatness against enormous odds through the risky, difficult, and daring struggle of an artist in the making. Marthe Adler’s coming of age is the foundation of her story, The Gift quadrilogy: the history she makes as a pioneering and courageous musician in a rigid, tradition-bound culture, the history she survives through the turbulent birth of the modern world from the ashes of the old, and the profound consequences of her life for the lives of her daughter and granddaughter as the twentieth century unfolds. 
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