Hello, Sunshine

Zusatztext 53034240 Informationen zum Autor Laura Dave is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me, Eight Hundred Grapes, and other novels. Her work has been published in thirty-eight countries. The Last Thing He Told Me has sold three million copies and is now a limited series on Apple TV+. She resides in Santa Monica, California. Klappentext Includes discussion questions for book groups. Leseprobe Hello, Sunshine 1 You should probably know two things up front. And the first is this: On my thirty-fifth birthdaythe day I lost my career and my husband and my home in one uncompromising swoopI woke up to one of my favorite songs playing on the radio alarm clock. I woke up to Moonlight Mile playing on the radio (where it is almost never played) and actually thought, as you only would think if you're a total fool (or, perhaps, if you were about to lose your career and your husband and your home in one uncompromising swoop): The world, my world, is good. I stayed in bed, in my fresh Frette sheets (a birthday present to myself), the sunlight drifting through the windows, the air chilly and light. And I listened to the entire song, crooning assuredly through my apartment. Are you familiar with the song Moonlight Mile? It's a Rolling Stones songnot nearly as popular as their ubiquitous You Can't Always Get What You Want or as wedding-song-sticky as Wild Horses. Moonlight Mile is just the most honest rock song ever recorded. I don't offer that as my personal opinion. I share that as fact: an inarguable fact, which you should twist into your brain and heart so that when someone argues the virtues of a different song as the epitome of greatness (prepare for the Beatles, who naturally arise as a challenge to the Stones), you can smile and quietly think, I know better. It's nice to know better. It's nice to know that when you hear the closing guitar riff of Moonlight Mile, what you're actually hearing is a piece of music so soft and difficult, so dangerous and quiet, so full of life and death and love, that just below its surface, the song is telling you a secreta secret that I was just starting to understandabout everything that matters in this world, everything that grounds us and eventually leaves us, all at once. The tricky part is that the song was the product of an all night jam session between Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor. It was Taylor who had taken a short guitar piece recorded by Keith Richards and reworked it for the session. And it was Taylor's idea to add a string arrangement to the final song. The legend goes that Taylor, for good reason, was promised a songwriting credit. But Moonlight Mile was officially credited to Jagger/Richards. Keith Richards would later deny Taylor's involvement at all, and say that Mick Jagger delivered the song to the band all on his own. Normally, if you were to ask me about this, I'd say: Who cares? The credit didn't matter, what mattered was the song. Taylor kept playing with the band, so he'd let it go. Except on the morning in questionthe morning of my thirty-fifth birthday, the morning of my crisp Frette sheets, of rightness in the worldthe injustice of Mick Taylor's omission was at the forefront of my mind, and I looked him up on my phone. Considering what was about to happen to my world, it was odd that this was the moment I focused on Taylor. Call it foreshadowing, call it intuition. For the first time, I found myself sympathizing with him. Even though, in my particular story, I'm not the guy you root for. I'm not Mick Taylor. I'm not even Mick Jagger. I'm Keith Richards, getting credit and telling lies from outside th...

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“If her Instagram feed is to be believed, Sunshine MacKenzie has it all. But after a hack costs her her career, husband, and apartment, she heads home to figure out whether her sense of self is permanently lost as well. A clever beach bag must-have that points up the follies of FOMO.”
—People

“Funny, fun, and impossible to put down, Hello, Sunshine tells the story of a YouTube-famous chef whose life seems perfect until she gets hacked.”
—Domino.com

"Dave reveals her skill at crafting deeply flawed yet sympathetic characters and avoids easy resolutions in favor of realizations hard won by the heroine. The settings—both the glamorous Manhattan and Hamptons environs and the restaurant-kitchen intrigues—are engaging...Sunshine’s journey to define herself apart from her Instagram filters and YouTube followers is where the novel shines."
—Publishers Weekly

"Dave creates a resilient, likable heroine whom readers can sympathize with and root for...Sunshine's journey is full of warmth, heart, and enough surprising twists to keep the story fresh. This upbeat, engaging exploration of finding one's authentic self is sure to make some of the "Best of Summer" book lists."
—Library Journal

“Dave’s novel will pull readers in from page one, and Sunshine will have readers in her corner, rooting her on as she uncovers what makes her special in a way that her celebrity life never could.”
—Booklist

"A smart, fun read about trying to live an authentic life in the age of social media overload."
—PopSugar.com

“Bestselling author Laura Dave proves her literary magic once again in her latest summer hit Hello, Sunshine – the absolutely unputdownable novel about a YouTube superstar and her fall from Internet stardom. An enticingly delicious celebration of authenticity, there is no chance you won’t consume this golden summer read in one sitting.”
—Redbook.com

“Wickedly funny and gorgeously entertaining, this is the beach read you need to preorder ASAP!”
—Redbook.com

“Addictive."
—Epicurious.com

"I loved this novel."
—Library Reads

“Laura Dave is a new author for me, and she did not disappoint. I loved this book – compassion, humor, and what happens when we try to be ourselves in world of social media.”
—Grundy County Herald

"Dave's sprightly, effervescent prose style crafts a deeply flawed character who is somehow still lovable and relatable."
—HarpersBazaar.com

"Perfect summer reading...For fans of Confessions of a Shopaholic and Something Borrowed."
—Tallahassee Democrat

"Hello, Sunshine is scandalous, gossipy, fun to read, and as juicy as that slice of fruit on the cover!... If you were looking for your beach read, this is it."
—BookRiot

“Total beach read.”
—PureWow

"[A] delightfully addictive page-turner."
—WMagazine.com

Autorentext

Laura Dave is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me, Eight Hundred Grapes, and other novels. Her work has been published in thirty-eight countries. The Last Thing He Told Me has sold three million copies and is now a limited series on Apple TV+. She resides in Santa Monica, California.

Klappentext

Includes discussion questions for book groups.

Zusammenfassung
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME​

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