Ever since her grandfather moved into the House of Music, a home for retired musicians, Renata’s Tuesdays—her visiting days—are anything but relaxing. Granddad has fallen in love with a soprano…

Ever since her grandfather moved into the House of Music, a home for retired musicians, Renata’s Tuesdays—her visiting days—are anything but relaxing. Granddad has fallen in love with a soprano with a soft spot for wearing wigs, the double bass player keeps running away, a stray cat wants to be adopted, and then there’s this boy dressed like Batman, who says that music is nothing but noise to him… To make matters worse, Granddad has sent her on a mission: Renata is supposed to look for an instrument she want to play, so that she can become a musician, like everyone else in her family. But how do you choose between the piccolo and the tuba, the synthesizer and the drums, or cello and ukulele? And what would happen if she wanted to do something completely different? What would happen if the solution was to not choose at all?Inspired by the true story of the Casa Verdi in Milan—a refuge for penniless, elderly musicians founded by the composer Giuseppe Verdi in the late 19th century—this charming book is a tale about a cast of quirky characters who all have one thing in common: their deep love of music.