Shine On, Marquee Moon

by Zoë Howe

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Pub Date 28 Sep 2016 | Archive Date 11 Jan 2017

Troubador Publishing Ltd | Matador

General Fiction (Adult)

Description

“A new relationship; the prescient mingling of two record collections. A stark, sonic reflection of your partnership’s potential, or lack of. Never mind compatibility tests and first date small talk, whether or not someone is a suitable prospect can be divined by a glance across the spines of well-loved jewel cases and battered LPs.”

Shine On, Marquee Moon, the debut novel of respected music writer Zoë Howe, is a rock ‘n’ roll love story that celebrates the extremes of life in the music business and challenges the myth of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll with plenty of wry humour, strong characters and sharp dialogue along the way. Never mind chick lit. This is rock chick lit.

Sylvie is a dresser working for a New Romantic band currently enjoying a 21st century revival. Sylvie becomes romantically involved with Nick – reluctant heart-throb and the least unhinged member of the band – after bonding amid the chaos of touring life over a shared obsession with Television’s seminal album ‘Marquee Moon’. However, a dark secret threatens to destroy their future together and much more besides.

Shine On, Marquee Moon exposes the hilarious, heart-wrenching and often bizarre reality of life on and off the road, where the most unlikely people become family, and ‘friends’ aren't always who they appear to be.

A Note From the Publisher

Zoë Howe is an acclaimed British music writer whose books include Lee Brilleaux: Rock ’n’ Roll Gentleman (Polygon, 2015), Barbed Wire Kisses -–The Jesus and Mary Chain Story (Polygon, 2015), Wilko Johnson – Looking Back At Me (Cadiz Music Ltd., 2012), Stevie Nicks - Visions, Dreams and Rumours (Omnibus Press, 2014) and Typical Girls? The Story Of The Slits (Omnibus Press, 2011). She also plays the drums.

Advance Praise

Shortlisted for the Virginia Prize for Fiction 2016, proclaimed an ‘instant rock ’n’ roll classic’ by Blackwell’s and was featured as one of NME’s ‘objects of desire’.

Mark Ellen, renowned music journalist and editor (Smash Hits, The Word, Select, Mojo, Q), broadcaster and author of Rock Stars Stole My Life "Tangled romance, ripe idiocy, monstrous self-delusion and 'that familiar backstage smell - hairspray, sweat, alcohol, dust burning on lightbulbs' ... Zoë Howe's crackling account of life around a rock band is fast, funny and superbly well-observed"

Louder Than War: ‘Bursting with ascerbic wit and savvy truth-telling. A great debut.’

Music journalist Gavin Martin (NME, Daily Mirror): ‘Kick ‘em in the nuts and leave ‘em laughing comic genius’

Jane Bradley, founder and director of For Books’ Sake: "Shine on, Marquee Moon is everything you'd expect from Zoë Howe: warm, wry, evocative and unconventional. This is an author who knows the idiosyncrasies of the music business and captures them all with candour and affection in a novel that is funny, fierce and better than most comeback tours.”

Shortlisted for the Virginia Prize for Fiction 2016, proclaimed an ‘instant rock ’n’ roll classic’ by Blackwell’s and was featured as one of NME’s ‘objects of desire’.

Mark Ellen, renowned music...

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