Summer Melody (Alien Buddha Press, November 2021) tells the story of Sophie Walters, a twenty-something violinist from London whose complicated connection with music is matched only by her difficult relationship with her mother, April. When her first love, the enigmatic cellist Paul Clark, unexpectedly returns to London, just after her estranged best friend, Robby Summers, Sophie is forced to confront everything she’s ever kept buried.

This is a story about complicated people who try, in their imperfect ways, to process emotion and the fears that come from simply being human. This is about identity, about how music runs through their lives in different ways, how it helps them to create the most personal of expressions, and, in turn, make sense of their feelings, the world around, and the people in them. Summer Melody is, most importantly, about the hope that it’s never too late to find your way.