CULTURE EDITION
HOLLY BRICKLEY Deep Cuts
Only published in March of this year, this quite extraordinary debut novel has been snapped up for a film adaptation starring Austin Butler and Saoirse Ronan. Set across the US in the early 2000s, the book follows two twentysomething students on separate but inextricably entangled creative journeys that bring them together and push them apart in an equally frustrating and totally compelling manner. Joe Morrow is an astonishingly talented singer and musician; Percy Marks is the untrained yet naturally gifted producer and songwriter who isn’t afraid of sharing her opinions, and has the power to transform Joe’s tracks into once-in-a- lifetime classics. After a frenzied discussion about Hall & Oates in a Berkeley student bar, Joe – who already has a long-term girlfriend – asks Percy to help him with a song he’s been working on, and both of their lives change forever. Over several years of collaboration, they quarrel, break each other’s hearts and the hearts of others who accidentally stumble into this life- long love story. Unputdownable, unforgettable and drenched in early-noughties music nostalgia, this must be read before the adaptation arrives. It’s the ideal book for music lovers over a long summer break.
IN A SPIN For music aficionados, romantics and anyone who’s ever hit ‘repeat’ on the wrong person
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