To Be Someone, by Louise Voss

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To Be Someone, by Louise Voss

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Helena Nicholls - ex world-famous pop star and prime-time DJ - wakes up in hospital to find her looks, her career and her personal life in tatters. She has been let down by her boyfriend, and the one person she loved most in the world - her best friend since the age of five - is dead. She feels that she belongs nowhere, and her sense of identity, fragile at the best of times, is in pieces. So Helena turns to the one thing that has always got her through, the one thing that has real resonance: music. And she begins to concoct The Plan. Using the request format that made her radio show so popular, where listeners rang in with detailed stories about why certain songs were so meaningful for them, she sets out the story of her own life, chapter by chapter, track by track. Thinking about the songs that represent important chapters in her own life, Helena begins to come to terms with her past. But the present is more of a problem as, while in hospital, she has remet an old friend to whom she is still hugely attracted. Her strict adherence to The Plan, however, means that time is not on her side. If she is to have a future at all, she must work out what it really means To Be Someone. With its wry, appealing narrative voice, and its insider's take on the world of pop music, To Be Someone is a stunningly mature first novel which swings with wide smoothness between past and present, child and adulthood, joy and tragedy, love, loss and the meaning of true friendship.

To Be Someone, by Louise Voss

• Published on: 2015-09-18
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 9.00" h x .96" w x 6.00" l,
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. I AM SOMEBODY By DENISE S.BRAB ONLINE BOOK CLUB LOVED IT!! Very insightful. I felt like I was the musician. Loved the friendship of Sam and Helena. I love Toby/Ruby. Would love to know what happen with them. This is my first review so, please forgive me if is a little lite. I would highly recommend this book. It gives you an inside view of the music business from the side of the musician from unknowns to superstars. To Be Someone

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. If you love music, read this By A Customer This is an impressive debut from Louise Voss and will appeal to all those thirtysomethings who love music and who still remember well the agonies of growing up.The novel is cleverly constructed, the characters are well drawn and there are some great jokes. This is a moving evocation of the struggles of coming of age and achieving self-acceptance; it contains many poignant moments that chime powerfully with this reader's own experiences. To Be Someone will get you humming along. Enjoy it; I did.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Fun, readable, literate and reflective By Mr. Thomas Thatcher Louise puts her background (in creative writing and in the wonderful wacky world of rock music) to good use in this, her first novel from quite a few years back now. I am ashamed to say that I didn't read it (or the others that followed) until some years after publication. I have now read it again, not on Kindle I'm afraid and I don't regret the exercise it in any way.Writing professionally is famously known as 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration, but I think Lou shows a higher percentage of the former here. The novel is about Helena, a once highly-active musician in the rock world, who finds herself laid up after a most unusual accident at a rock ceremony (nice touch from Lou here: you'll have to read it!). As her enforced idleness causes her to think and reflect, the chapters of her life are epitomised and to some degree illustrated by a string of popular pop/rock singles, which has drawn comparisons to Nick Hornby. I don't find this convincing: when I was in my teens (about 459 years ago: I remember Edward II and his military abilities quite well)there were frequent comparisons between Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's 1984 (which was about 1948 anyway): while they are both about dystopian future societies, they approach matters from a totally different angle - and so do Lou and Nick.Anyway, as Helena reflects on her (in some ways unsatisfactory) life) she has another chance meeting that also changes her life for the future, we hope, and looks forward rather than back.Louise is a very good, accurate, literate writer and has passed test number one: it's a page-turner, and Helena and her life are interesting enough that we want to know what happens/happened. Test numbers 2 - 20 are that.... any writing designed for publication should be readable and a good page-turner, if you get my point (see test 1). After a dose of some of the classics, even the most devoted literati find themselves reaching for something less weighty. I even don't mind the obvious allusion to the Jam, even though I am physically allergic to them.Is is chic-lit? No, it's not: while it's aimed at a younger audiende than ancient males like me (one hundred and fifty years ago, the Shoshone tribe would have left me by roadside as an act of expiation for the local vulture God) it's engaging from page one and is just a .... good book. As an aside, I have noticed in life that it is impossible to turn on the radio or open a newspaper without catching a reference to goats. Rest assured, this is a book that is, for all intents and purposes, a goat-free zone. Buy with confidence: you'll like it a lot.I am so pleased about Louise Voss' latest successes on Kindle and now in hard print: she is starting a second career and we all wish her the very best of success. She deserves it and is a smashing writer whose books make readers want to know what happens next, with characters you care about, in very good English. That's about all you need, really - hungry vultures and goats notwithstanding.

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