This Bird Has Flown

Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single-due to a certain younger starlet and a movie producer ex-boyfriend who won't be named. Ten years prior, Jane had a hit song-written by world-famous superstar Jonesy-but Jane hasn't had a hit since. She's been surviving at her parents' house with only four garbage bags of clothes and a cardigan affectionately nicknamed ''Kurt Cobain, reduced to performing to Karaoke tracks at a ''private'' in Las Vegas. Rock bottom. But when her best friend and longtime manager Pippa sends Jane to London to regroup, she happens to be seated next to the elegantly handsome Tom Hardy on the plane. Jane is instantly smitten by the soft-spoken, intriguing Oxford professor of literature who just might be able to whisk her away from all her humiliations. But after Jonesy reappears and tries to pull her back into the business, it turns out that it is not only the questions of her past that haunt them. Is Tom all that he seems? And, more important, can Jane emerge from the shadow of Jonesy's earlier hit, and into the light of her own? For lovers of Daisy Jones & the Six, and inspired by favorites like Jane Eyre and Bridget Jones's Diary, This Bird Has Flown follows Jane in love and lust with a mysterious new man, and in confusion as she works out what it might mean to make it as a star. With emotional acuity, laser-sharp comic timing, and a raconteur's flair, Susanna Hoffs pulls back the curtain on the music business, on performing, and on finding true love.