Stories Behind the Story with Better Reading
Oct 25, 2026 · 34 min · 17 segments
Heather Morris joins Cheryl Akle to discuss her latest novel, *The Piano Teacher of Montparnasse*, and the remarkable true story that inspired it. She shares how a chance conversation with composer…
Heather MorrisGuest
Cheryl AkleHost
Okay, I need to introduce you formally, even though we've just had this conversation.
So we've talked about that we're talking to Heather Morris, and she is the author of The Tattoos of Our Switch.
And he wrote to me saying, I picked up your book in the airport in Toronto flying to Tel Aviv to visit my mum.
And the next day he'd come out to read some more and he left it on his mum's coffee table.
And his then 94-year-old mum had walked past, looked down at the cover and said to her son, that must be about Lali and Gita.
And when he said, how could you possibly know that? And she said, well, look at the number on that girl's arm.
Okay, I need to introduce you formally, even though we've just had this conversation.
So we've talked about that we're talking to Heather Morris, and she is the author of The Tattoos of Our Switch.
And he wrote to me saying, I picked up your book in the airport in Toronto flying to Tel Aviv to visit my mum.
And the next day he'd come out to read some more and he left it on his mum's coffee table.
And his then 94-year-old mum had walked past, looked down at the cover and said to her son, that must be about Lali and Gita.
And when he said, how could you possibly know that? And she said, well, look at the number on that girl's arm.
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