This Bird has Flown, Susanna Hoffs

Story Blurb

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. 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.

My Thoughts/Opinion

This book was recommended to me by a good friend. She had me intrigued when she said this was written by the lead singer of the Bangles. I read it in a couple of sittings and was definitely curious about where it would go and how it would resolve. I think the thing that still has been trying to decide if I enjoyed it or not was that one of the main characters had such an egregious moral failing (one that I would find hard to accept in real life), I'm not sure if that person really deserves the HEA. I don't know. I'm still conflicted. So as my friend told me, the book was well done because even now I'm still thinking about it. I also recommend reading this one instead of listening to the audio. Though the musical tidbits were nice in the audio, the female narrator sounded like she was 18 and the FMC was early 30s so that also threw me off a bit.

Favorite Quote:

“I began to relax into it. To love it. To love the caress of the notes, vibrating in my throat, the exhilaration of setting them free, letting them sail into the air. The best kind of flying—no seat belts, no turbulence, only clear blue skies”