From the acclaimed author of Passion comes an audacious, brilliant and haunting novel in which the worlds of nineteenth-century theatre, of Romantic art and music, of revolutionary Europe, of inspiration and madness, are presented with the dazzle of a world-class orchestra. Symphony embodies the wild intensity of the lives of the actress Harriet Smithson and Hector Berlioz. Harriet was Berlioz`s muse and his Symphonie Fantastique, directly inspired by her, changes the course of music forever. But their lives take a dramatic, tragic and incredible turn when life begins to imitate art.