This Bird Has Flown

Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit song--written by world-famous superstar Jonesy--but Jane hasn't had a breakout since. Now she's living out of four garbage bags at her parents' house, reduced to performing to Karaoke tracks in Las Vegas. Rock bottom.But when her longtime manager Pippa sends Jane to London to regroup, she's seated next to an intriguing stranger on the flight--the other Tom Hardy, an elegantly handsome Oxford professor of literature. Jane is instantly smitten by Tom, and soon, truly inspired. But it's not Jane's past alone that haunts her second chance at stardom, and at love. Is Tom all that he seems? And can Jane emerge from the shadow of Jonesy's earlier hit, and into the light of her own?In turns deeply sexy, riotously funny, and utterly joyful, This Bird Has Flown explores love, 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.