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Title: The Song of Us
Author: J. D. Barrett
Narrator: J. D. Barrett
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-11-17
Publisher: Hachette Australia Audio
Genres: Fiction, Chick Lit
Publisher's Summary:
If Bridget Jones and Nina Proudman had a sister, she would be Zoe Wylde.
Zoe Wylde is a woman at a crossroads. Five years ago she fled her successful career as a concert harpist in London to return to her Bondi home. She still plays, but now her audience is on the way out...literally.
It's complicated, and complication is something Zoe understands well. Her best friend is chasing a new love, her brother's chasing too much love and her father has been married far too many times. Compared to them she thought she was doing okay. She's met the guy she is sure is the one. He wooed her and has been sleeping with her for almost five years. It would all be perfect...if he wasn't married.
Zoe is learning that hearts, like harps, are capable of beautiful music if treated the right way and can be tricky to manoeuvre. She's over the old tune. But does Zoe have the courage to rewrite the song of her own life?
Members Reviews:
The Bond Between Music and Life, Music and Death
âIn this moment, someone is falling in love, someone is receiving their first kiss, someone is having their last fight, someone is cooking spaghetti bolognaise, someone is having the best orgasm of their life, someone is getting married, someone is dying, someone is listening to what will become their favourite song, someone is crying, someone is being born. We are all so embedded in our own tales that, we forget, we are all at different times experiencing the majority of the same thingââ
There is a bond between music and life, and music and death. Music has the ability to transport us to another place and time, to a beloved memory, to a sorrowful one, a hopeful one, even a joyful reminiscence. Songs we associate with the celebration of life, the joys of living, the rights and passages, bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs, weddings. Songs can transport us to a time and life before our own, and songs can also assist us in our transition from this life into the next. Until I read my goodreads friend Biancaâs review of J.D. Barrettâs âThe Song of Usâ I had never heard of anyone being a professional musical thanatologist.
Zoe Wylde, however, is just that. In Zoeâs case, sheâs a professional harpist thanatologist. She plays her harp to accompany those on their final human journey. She once played for the London Symphony, but has returned to her home, her familyâs home, in Ben Buckler, a small peninsula at the apex of North Bondi beach. She finds solace in this new calling, a connection to these people, a love for them and a desire to fulfill these last wishes, that they may find her presence and her music a soothing balm to guide them on their journey. She spends time with them, gets to know who they are, who they were, and lets them tell her their stories. She learns what kind of music they enjoy, all a little at a time.
What an honor and privilege.
At the age of thirty-three, with five years invested in a relationship with a man with a family of his own, she has decided to take a trip, away from family, and try to find the first love of one of her elderly friends, and perhaps consider rejoining the Symphony.
Zoe is a wonderful character, sheâs imperfect, but embraces that about herself while still searching for the elusive âsomethingâ to transport to the life she desires.
