To be Someone

by N/A

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.38

  When Helena Nicholls wakes up in hospital following an accident in a nightclub, she is in despair. Having fallen face first onto a champagne glass in a moment of uncharacteristic high jinks, she is badly disfigured and deaf in one ear. Her career as an internationally famous rock star and prime-time DJ is in tatters. She has been let down by her feckless boyfriend, and the one person she loved most in the world - her best friend since the age of five - is dead. She belongs nowhere, and her sense of identity, fragile at the best of times, is shot to pieces. So Helena turns to the one thing that has always got her through, the one thing that has real resonance- music. And she begins to concoct The Plan. Using the request format that made her radio show so popular, where listeners rang in with detailed stories about why certain songs were so meaningful for them, she sets out the story of her own life, chapter by chapter, track by track. Listening to the songs that represent important periods in her own life, Helena begins to come to terms with her past. But the present is more of a problem as, while in hospital, she has re-met an old flame to whom she is still hugely attracted. H