A delightfully funny and romantic debut novel from Susanna Hoffs, celebrated performer and co-founder of The Bangles, that is "part British romcom, part Jane Eyre, and one hundred percent enjoyable" (Tom Perrotta).
Music. Fate. Redemption. Love.
Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit songwritten by world-famous superstar Jonesybut Jane hasnt 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, shes seated next to an intriguing stranger on the flightthe other Tom Hardy, an elegantly handsome Oxford professor of literature. Jane is instantly smitten by Tom, and soon, truly inspired. But its not Janes 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.
"In this sexy, page-turning treat, Susanna Hoffs writes as engagingly as she sings. Helen Fielding, author of the bestselling sensation Bridget Joness Diary
A little bit romance, a little bit rock-and-rollthis isnt just a book, its 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
