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Cass Wheeler - a British singer-songwriter, hugely successful since the early 70s, whose sudden disappearance from the music has been the subject of intense speculation among her fans - is in the studio that adjoins her home, taking a journey back into her past. Her task is to choose sixteen songs from among the hundreds she has written since her early teens, for a uniquely personal Greatest Hits record, describing the arc of her life through song.
It has been over a decade since Cass last put out an album; ten years since a tragedy catapulted her into a breakdown. In the course of this one day - both ordinary and extraordinary - each song Cass plays sets off a chain of memories, leading us deep into her past, and into the creative impulse that has underpinned her work.
This is the story of a life - of highs and lows, love and separation, success and failure. Of what it is to live a fulfilled life, and how to make peace with our mistakes.
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The mother/daughter relationship is the most moving aspect of this excellent book, and as Cass becomes a mother herself the novels asks, to what extent can harmful patterns by broken? This engaging, emotionally charged novel about music, motherhood and mental illness deserves to be a hit. (THE OBSERVER)
Barnett has that rare talent, like Curtis Sittenfeld or Kate Atkinson, of building up the mundane aspects of everyday life until they acquire meaning. (THE TIMES)
Barnett excels herself in this mesmerising ballad of a book.. an authentic account of the true cost of laying oneself bare as a female artist in an industry where double standards reign. (STYLIST - BOOK WARS)
Barnett's portrait is unusually perceptive, a mixture of evocative detail and sharp reportage that feels fresh to read (SUNDAY TIMES)
Barnett's style is poetic, perceptive and so fully realised it reads like an exceptionally well-written biography of a real person.. A fascinating, occasionally sobering, portrait of fame. (DAILY MAIL)
For fans of Laura Barnett's debut novel, The Versions of Us, her next novel Greatest Hits is no disappointment.. Barnett proves once again that she can master the art of storytelling and weave a complex, enticing plot into 400 pages. (THE INDEPENDENT)
this is a wonderful story - soulful, tender and full of hope (SUNDAY MIRROR)
has a wisdom and a harmony that are satisfying (THE GUARDIAN)
the overriding melody in this seductive novel is the pleasure and pain of living a creative life. (SUNDAY EXPRESS)
Everybody's talking about Greatest Hits. (GOOD HOUSEKEEPING)
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Barnett has that rare talent, like Curtis Sittenfeld or Kate Atkinson, of building up the mundane aspects of everyday life until they acquire meaning. (THE TIMES)
Barnett excels herself in this mesmerising ballad of a book.. an authentic account of the true cost of laying oneself bare as a female artist in an industry where double standards reign. (STYLIST - BOOK WARS)
Barnett's portrait is unusually perceptive, a mixture of evocative detail and sharp reportage that feels fresh to read (SUNDAY TIMES)
Barnett's style is poetic, perceptive and so fully realised it reads like an exceptionally well-written biography of a real person.. A fascinating, occasionally sobering, portrait of fame. (DAILY MAIL)
For fans of Laura Barnett's debut novel, The Versions of Us, her next novel Greatest Hits is no disappointment.. Barnett proves once again that she can master the art of storytelling and weave a complex, enticing plot into 400 pages. (THE INDEPENDENT)
this is a wonderful story - soulful, tender and full of hope (SUNDAY MIRROR)
has a wisdom and a harmony that are satisfying (THE GUARDIAN)
the overriding melody in this seductive novel is the pleasure and pain of living a creative life. (SUNDAY EXPRESS)
Everybody's talking about Greatest Hits. (GOOD HOUSEKEEPING)
Singer, lover, daughter, mother. What are the greatest hits of your life? The new novel from the author of the number one bestseller The Versions of Us
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- PublisherWeidenfeld & Nicolson
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1474600212
- ISBN 13 9781474600217
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages464
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Book Description Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neu Neuware; Rechnung mit MwSt.; new item; -One day. Sixteen songs. The soundtrack of a lifetime. Alone in her studio, Cass Wheeler is taking a journey back into her past. After a silence of ten years, the singer-songwriter is picking the sixteen tracks that have defined her - sixteen key moments in her life - for a uniquely personal Greatest Hits album. In the course of this one day, both ordinary and extraordinary, the story of Cass's life emerges - a story of highs and lows, of music, friendship and ambition, of great love and great loss. But what prompted her to retreat all those years ago, and is there a way for her to make peace with her past Daughter. Mother. Singer. Lover. What are the memories that mean the most In this bittersweet and poignant follow-up to the Number One bestselling The Versions of Us, Laura Barnett cements her position as one of the most talented storytellers of her generation. 464 pp. Englisch. Seller Inventory # INF1100336716
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