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LIFE SONG – an overview of the story
Could Mavis live the rest of her life as she’d been living? She couldn’t, not now she’d glimpsed another world, fleeting though that vision had been.’
It takes a bold woman to choose the path less travelled especially when she is a single parent.
Mavis was born to be a songbird. Her parents named her after one, a bird with a distinctive song worthy of poetry. With her wings clipped by circumstance, Mavis spent six years of her life grounded and her dream of soaring flight almost forgotten. After a time of making do, Mavis unexpectedly discovers that she has a choice: accept a life that is ‘ordinary’ or strive to rise above her circumstance, realise her potential, and be among the one percent that shine.
It is a long way to the top in the music industry and more than a name needs to be changed in order to succeed. It is a gruelling challenge with exhausting demands and subtle traps for the uninitiated. Can Mavis make it? Will she be able to navigate her path between singing the music that she was born to score and being moulded by music industry expectations? Can she build a better life for herself and her son? Can she have it all?
Set between 1996-1998 in Australia, Life Song explores the tug-of-wars that come with being a performer, woman, mother, daughter, and the ways individuals and the community shape our realities. It is set against the backdrop of the vibrant Australian live-music scene and a coastal town south of Sydney. Life Song offers genuine insight into the human condition and the journey of the central character to realise her potential while trying to maintain the balance between pursuing a career and being a mother. The reader shares the hard yards of life as well as the rush and exhilaration of being on stage.
Note to readers
1. Life Song is a standalone novel that follows the life of a secondary character from In and Out of Step (my debut novel), six years after the end of In and Out of Step.
2. Australians use the British spelling system and not that favoured in the USA.
RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 2013
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