This Bird Has Flown, Susanna Hoffs
This Bird Has Flown, Susanna Hoffs
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This Bird Has Flown
A Novel

Author: Susanna Hoffs

Narrator: Susanna Hoffs, Juliet Stevenson

Unabridged: 12 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/04/2023

Synopsis

This delightfully funny and steamy novel about music, fate, and love from beloved songwriter and Bangles co-founder Susanna Hoffs is "a total knockout" and "the smart, ferocious rock-star redemption romance you didn’t know you needed" (New York Times Book Review). Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit song—written by world-famous superstar Jonesy—but Jane hasn’t had a breakout since. Now she's living out of four garbage bags at her parents’ house, reduced to performing to Karaoke tracks in Las Vegas. Rock bottom. But when her longtime manager Pippa sends Jane to London to regroup, she’s seated next to an intriguing stranger on the flight—the other Tom Hardy, an elegantly handsome Oxford professor of literature. Jane is instantly smitten by Tom, and soon, truly inspired. But it’s not Jane’s past alone that haunts her second chance at stardom, and at love. Is Tom all that he seems? And can Jane emerge from the shadow of Jonesy's earlier hit, and into the light of her own? In turns deeply sexy, riotously funny, and utterly joyful, This Bird Has Flown explores love, passion, and the ghosts of our past, and offers a glimpse inside the music business that could only come from beloved songwriter Susanna Hoffs. "Clever and entertaining . . . with an insider’s feel for the mixed blessings of pop fame​." —Los Angeles Times"Part British romcom, part Jane Eyre, and one hundred percent enjoyable."—Tom Perrotta"In this sexy, page-turning treat, Susanna Hoffs writes as engagingly as she sings.” —Helen Fielding"This isn’t just a book, it’s a love song, and it should come as no surprise that Susanna Hoffs has crafted the perfect one to put on your playlist.” ―Christina Lauren "A sweet and tender romance—and a valentine to music." —NPR “This book is a blast . . . about art and new beginnings and love and friendship and taking risks, it’s such a fun read.” ―Jasmine Guillory

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer on June 01, 2023

I’m whistling “Walk like an Egyptian” and performing the song’s famous moves right now! As I’m preparing myself to embrace the upcoming hazy shade of winter and keep listening more Bangles songs, I have to admit Susanna Hoffs is not only brilliant singer, guitarist and songwriter, she’s also promisi......more

Goodreads review by Betsy on May 30, 2023

I really wanted to like this book and was looking forward to reading it. Unfortunately from an even mildly feminist perspective, which surely a woman rock star might be, the main character is low key the worst. She makes super bad decisions, defines herself by the men in her life, and becomes sort o......more

Goodreads review by Wolfie (wolfgang.reads) on January 06, 2023

This Bird Has Flown has the bones for a superb debut romance novel - a meet-cute, insta-love in first class between a once-famous musician who has now hit rock bottom and a classically handsome Oxford professor of literature named Tom Hardy (nope, not that guy nor the other one), a second chance at......more

Goodreads review by Lian on December 06, 2022

A rock n' roll rom-com by the lead singer of The Bangles. Our main character is a one-hit wonder pop star, Jane Start, who has had writer's block and stage fright for the last ten years. Her one big hit was written by a Prince-like character and she's lived in its shadow for a decade. The best part......more

Goodreads review by Fran on October 10, 2023

The premise of this novel is that an intelligent woman in her late 30s, a tough veteran of the music business, would move in lock, stock, and favorite sweater with a stranger she meets on an airplane, mainly because of great sex -- so far, okay, I can accept that setup, but here's where the book qui......more

Quotes

“Bangles frontwoman Susanna Hoffs demonstrates her range. . . . Hoffs hits the familiar beats of romantic comedy with such panache and gusto, every note feels fresh. Clutch your pearls as Jane swears, boozes, masturbates and indulges, but just try to measure the size of her heart with any ordinary ruler. Ditto the writing. There is not a spare, bare sentence to be found. Instead, the pages are packed with wit and sly allusion and dialogue that strikes the ear just so.”—Beatriz Williams, New York Times Book Review

"Hoffs' immense writing talent isn't just confined to songs. . . .This Bird Has Flown is a love story, a sweet and tender romance, but not just one between Jane and Tom — it's Hoffs' valentine to music."—NPR

"In this sexy, page-turning treat of a debut novel, Susanna Hoffs writes as engagingly as she sings."
 —Helen Fielding, author of the bestselling phenomenon Bridget Jones's Diary

“A clever and entertaining debut novel about the nagging ambivalence of love, missed connections and the transcendent power of a great two-minute pop song. . . . Hoffs spins the gears of her antic narrative with sharp, sardonic wit and an insider’s feel for the mixed blessings of pop fame and a fickle public. But just as the wheels start to fall off, grace arrives . . . such is the power of music; it can give us the key to ourselves at those times when we need it the most. Hoffs understands this acutely, which is why This Bird Has Flown rings so true. Read it with the radio on.”—Los Angeles Times

“This Bird has Flown is a blast of pure pleasure, an addictive medley of music, romance, secrets, and sex. Susanna Hoffs’ captivating first novel is part British romcom, part Jane Eyre, and one hundred percent enjoyable.”—Tom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Fletcher and Tracy Flick Can’t Win

"Irresistible." —E! News

“This book is a blast. It satisfied the part of me that loves a hot rock-and-roll romance, with Vegas adventures and sold out concerts and lots of champagne, as well as the part of me that loves a tender love story with an Oxford professor, with slow airplane kisses, drives in the British countryside and long talks over tea. It’s about art and new beginnings and love and friendship and regrets and fear and taking risks, and it’s such a fun read.”—Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author of Drunk on Love

 “A little bit romance, a little bit rock-and-roll—this isn’t just a book, it’s a love song, and it should come as no surprise that Susanna Hoffs has crafted the perfect one to put on your playlist.”—Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners

“Elegant, thoughtful, and ever-so-sexy, This Bird Has Flown will stay in your mind—in your heart—like a favorite song.”—Rachel Hawkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs

“A tender, funny, love story wrapped in a guitar-jamming rock-and-roll cloak. I haven’t had this much fun reading a book in a long, long time."—Jessica Anya Blau, author of Mary Jane

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