Shine

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Thus David Helfgott rushed in from the emotional storm he had weathered for three decades, back into public spotlight he was always destined to occupy. A former child prodigy whose interpretive genius promised a brilliant career as a concept pianist, he suffered a devastating breakdown in his early twenties. In the years of obscurity and loneliness which followed, he lived in a twilight world without music. But then came that fateful night at the restaurant. David sat down at the piano by the bar and showed the world his gift was far from dead ...