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‘This is a novel about love in all its forms.’ What does Paul learn about love from his various relationships in the novel? In the ‘rites of passage’ narrative Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy, Paul learns about ‘love in all its forms’. Through his relationships with his parents, his girlfriend then wife Rosie and his piano teacher ‘maestro’ Edward Keller, Paul learns what love is. During his life journey because of his relationships, he learns how to give love, receive love and how love and all of its attachments shape lives. One of the ways Paul learns ‘about love in all its forms’ is through his relationships with his parents and their relationship with each other. Paul’s parents, Nancy and John, shared a common thread of music but that was where there similarities ended ‘apart from music they had little in common.’ Paul’s parents were like chalk and cheese, ‘and yet how happy they always seemed, in spite, or perhaps because of it.’ Paul’s parents loved him uncondition