A life of bright days

A moving novel about love, separation, art and friendship - written by one of the most successful contemporary English authors. Cass Wheeler is a British singer and songwriter. After more than three decades of a glamorous career, she suddenly disappears from the public eye, leading to wild speculation among her fans. Now, ten years after this retreat, she stands in her studio and begins a journey into the past. She wants to pick sixteen out of the hundreds of songs she has written in the course of her life and record her own personal greatest-hits album with them. What was the monstrous thing that happened then that Cass made this radical cut with her glorious life? How did this happen? With every song that Cass plays in the course of this one day, a chain of memories is triggered, so there is.