Writer Leona Francombe reveals how her new novel was inspired by finding a piano on a Brussels street

Writer and musician Leona Francombe was inspired to write The Universe in 3/4 Time after rescuing a piano abandoned in the street near her Brussels home, late one winter’s night. The resulting novel is a mystery story: a music-themed tale that travels back and forth between the present day and the period of occupation in 1940s Belgium, Prague and the Pyrenees.