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Sophy Roberts


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Sophy Roberts is an award-winning writer based in England. She began her career assisting the writer Jessica Mitford, and trained in journalism at Columbia University in New York. She has worked as Editor-at-Large of Condé Nast Traveller, and held the same role at the US edition of Departures magazine from 2003 to 2015. She wrote a column for 10 years with The Financial Times called How To Spend It, and now writes across a wide range of international titles. Sophy has also worked a columnist and special correspondent for the US edition of Condé Nast Traveler, and travel editor of 1843 Magazine, published by The Economist.

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The Lost Pianos of Siberia
3.96 avg rating — 2,163 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions
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“Truly, there would be reason to go mad if it were not for music,’ said the Russian pianist and composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky.18”
― Sophy Roberts, The Lost Pianos of Siberia: A Sunday Times Book of 2020
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“Where wooden houses seem to cosy up together for warmth, there are pianos washed up and abandoned from the high-tide mark of nineteenth-century European romanticism.”
― Sophy Roberts, The Lost Pianos of Siberia
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“When crystals fell from the feathered branches, it felt like I was walking into a cloudburst.”
― Sophy Roberts, The Lost Pianos of Siberia
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