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"she is stunning," creates irish american art historian Patricia Dolan within the to begin the diary records that type The Music Lesson. "I glance at my face in the mirror and it appears a long way away, less genuine than hers."   The girl she explains may be the topic of the compromised Vermeer of the book's name. Patricia is alone with this specific beautiful artwork in a distant Irish bungalow by the ocean. How she found its way to such an improbable situation is one-part of the story Patricia informs us: about her dad, a cop who elevated her to think sincerely in the reason for an united Ireland; the-art background profession that's suffered her because the numbing loss of her child; and the appearance of Mickey O'Driscoll, her alarmingly wonderful, youthful Irish relative, which has resulted in her participation in this high-levels crime.        How her elegant vigil becomes an account of loss, regret, and change may be the remainder of her story.