THE SONGS YOU’VE NEVER HEARD BY BECKY JERAMS AND ELLIE WYATT
Paperback Published by Clock Tower 16th June 2022
368 Pages
ISBN 9781782266754
For age 14+
Dual-written by K-pop hit writer Becky Jerams and BAFTA-winning children’s composer Ellie Wyatt, The Songs You’ve Never Heard is a debut YA novel that champions sisterhood, musical talent and body positivity. Perfect for fans of Taylor Swift, Estelle Maskame, and celebrity YA.
How can two lost girls find their voices in a world that’s determined to keep them silent?
Meg McCarthy seems to be everything Alana Howard is not: rich, glamorous and – thanks to Caspar, her world-famous pop star brother – a social media influencer that every brand wants to sponsor.
But while Meg is feeling trapped by the squeaky-clean McCarthy brand, plagued by online haters and too terrified to share her own talent with the world, songwriter Alana doesn’t seem to be scared of standing out.
When Meg and Alana’s worlds collide, they quickly learn that appearances can be deceiving.
Extract from part of chapter one
“ Oh my God, that’s Meg McCarthy over there !”
“Who?”
“Caspar McCarthy’s sister.”
They think I can’t hear them because I’ve got my headphones on. Annoyingly, the volume doesn’t go high enough to drown out their chirpy voices.
“ How do you know that?”
“ Every Caspar fan knows that. He’s got loads of photos and interviews with her online.”
I turn the music up louder. Lana Del Rey is pouring dreamily into my ears, but even her luscious voice can’t distract me from their gossip. They seem about my age, or maybe a bit younger. I can’t tell anymore. All the fans look the same to me these days.
“Are you sure it’s her?” She doesn’t look much like Caspar.”
“I’m positive. He’s from Brighton so it makes sense that she’d be hanging around here.”
The waiter hands me the bill on a plate covered with tempting chocolate mints. I push them away to the other end of the table. If there’s one habit I’ve learned growing up with Caspar, it’s to never indulge too much. Because someone is always watching.
As I reach for my purse, I feel an unwanted presence over my shoulder. The girls have picked up their drinks and are honing in on me. They are a cloud of blonde hair sticky lip-gloss and flowery perfume, wrapped up in two beaming smiles.
They always seem nice.
“ Meg hi!” says the leader of the duo as though I’m someone in her class, or a cousin she’s grown up with. “ Do you mind if we sit with you?”
All I manage is a non-verbal grunt. I don’t bother taking my headphones off, hoping that they’ll get the hint.
“ I love your eye liner,” the second girl says, or rather yells right in my face. “ It looks amazing on you. What brand is it? Your whole style is like, serious goals.”
when I get these kinds of questions on Twitter it’s easier to deal with. I can ignore them. Or block them.
“ Hey, can you hear us?” the first girl asks, waving her hand in front of my face. I am genuinely not real to them. I’m just a 3D version of the photos on my brother’s Instagram. “ Can you turn your music down a second?”
I lay a fiver next to my receipt as I get up. “ Sorry I don’t have time to chat right now.”
“ Rude!” she squeaks indignantly as I brush past her. “ You could at least talk to us for a few seconds. We were just trying to be nice, bitch!”
Dual-written by K-pop hit writer Becky Jerams and BAFTA-winning children’s composer Ellie Wyatt, The Songs You’ve Never Heard is a debut YA novel that champions sisterhood, musical talent and body positivity. Perfect for fans of Taylor Swift, Estelle Maskame, and celebrity YA.
ABOUT AUTHOR BECKY JERAMS
http://www.beckyjerams.com
Twitterbeckyjerams
GenreYoung Adult, Romance, Contemporary
Becky Jerams (born June 26th, 1987) is a writer and musician from Portsmouth, UK. Her first published novel “The Songs You’ve Never Heard”, co-written with Ellie Wyatt, combines real life songs and story into a ‘booksical’ and is inspired by real life experiences of being a woman in the music industry.
Becky’s 2015 self-published novel “Reasons To Love A Nerd Like Me” was featured on the website Wattpad where it gained many loyal readers and over two million hits. She went on to write a multiple book series based around these characters for Kindle. These books are now offline, but available upon special request.
Becky lives with her husband near the sea and splits her time between fiction writing, songwriting sessions, performing acoustic gigs and working in a student art shop. Her songs have been featured internationally with artists and on TV, and her stories have been read by thousands of young people across the world gaining her fans from UK, US, Spain, Philippines, Nigeria, France, Egypt, Jamaica, Australia, India and beyond. Her pacey, emotional style of writing aimed for a young adult audience has been compared to the likes of John Green, David Levithan and Becky Albertalli.
ABOUT CO-AUTHOR ELLIE WYATT
Websitehttp://www.elliewyattmusic.co.uk/
TwitterEllieWyattMusic
GenreMusic, Young Adult, Contemporary
Ellie has loved books and music for as long as she can remember and wrote her first song aged 13. She successfully combined these two passions throughout her twenties by joining a touring band and reading her way around the UK in the back of a smelly van.
She is now a BAFTA winning children’s
songwriter, a composer and string arranger whose music and songs have been used on a wide array of film, TV and advertising. She has worked with acclaimed international artists including Nick Cave, Orbital and Caro Emerald and currently writes music for children’s television, with numerous CBeebies, Sky-Milkshake and Sesame Street projects to her name.
She is also possibly the only person in the world to have broken a bone at book-club…
‘The Songs you’ve Never Heard’ is a new venture in to YA fiction co-written with Becky Jerams. This ‘booksical’ is a music based story with accompanying album of songs due for release in June 2022 by Clock Tower Publishing.
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