Delphine Seddon, a graduate of Faber & Faber’s writing academy and studied poetry at Goldsmiths University, writes female-driven contemporary fiction and poetry.
Her debut novel is Darkening Song.
For the past 20 years she has worked in the music business.
At The Nerd Daily Seddon tagged seven favorite books with a music theme. One of the novels on the list:
A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer EganRead about the other entries on the list.
Brilliant, funny, poignant
This book won the Pulitzer Prize. I don’t know if I’d describe it as music fiction exactly – one of the characters is a record label executive, so there is anelement of music business, but it felt to me like this was more a book about human behaviour and why we are who we are and the choices we make. There’s an entire chapter which is made up of diagrams on power point slides. Truthfully, I never really understood what that chapter was saying, but big respect to the author for doing something so radical – I love that. Sasha is an incredible character – another strong, flawed, female protagonist (I clearly love a strong, flawed female protagonist!). A Visit From The Goon Squad is to my mind a modern day classic.
A Visit From the Goon Squad is among the Amazon Book Review's list of ten books for fans of Daisy Jones & the Six, Julian Gough's ten top books to help you survive the digital age, Marina Benjamin's ten top books about middle age, four books that changed Alison Lester, Jeff Somers's five top books that blur the line between the novel and short story, Gillian Anderson's six favorite books, and Julie Christie's seven favorite books.
--Marshal Zeringue
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