Tanya Tintner’s biography of her late husband, the conductor Georg Tintner, Out of Time: The Vexed Life of Georg Tintner, has been selected as one of the New Zealand Listener’s best books of 2011.

This is what the reviewers had to say about Out of Time:

‘Many concert-going New Zealanders will recall the fragile figure of conductor Tintner looking much as he is pictured on the cover of this absorbing and immaculately put together book by his third wife and widow, who writes with a candour that usually eludes family members who tackle biographies.’