SONGBIRD: A Novel of Music, Motherhood and Second Chances

They thought her story was ending. She was only becoming.For twenty years, Jolene Wyatt has given everything to music.Ten albums. Gold records. Sold-out shows. Thousands of people singing her words back to her.Then, at forty, the industry that once celebrated her decides she is no longer commercially viable.And Jolene is pregnant.Dropped by her label and facing a future she never planned, she could accept that her best years are behind her.Instead, she starts again.Free from the people who spent years telling her what she should sound like, Jolene begins making the most honest music of her life. An uncompromising producer, an unlikely new band and a collection of deeply personal songs slowly give her something she thought she'd lost: Her voice.But rebuilding a career is only part of the story.As motherhood approaches, Jolene must confront her complicated relationship with Toby, the mistakes and compromises of her past, and a frightening question: Who is Jolene Wyatt when she no longer needs the music industry to tell her who she is?Then comes Glastonbury.And the chance to stand on one of the world's greatest stages-not as the woman she used to be, but as the woman she has finally allowed herself to become.SONGBIRD is an uplifting and emotional contemporary novel about music, motherhood, love, ageing, second chances and finding the courage to begin again when everyone else thinks your moment has passed.