AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! ∙ A hitmaking songwriter and a bitter musician share a startling and inexplicable connection that they’ll do anything to shake, in the next sparkling, magical book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Year Slip and A Novel Love Story.
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Joni Lark has a secret. She’s one of the most coveted songwriters in LA, and yet she can’t write. There’s an emptiness inside her, and nothing seems to fill it.
When she returns to her hometown of Vienna Shores, North Carolina, she hopes that the sand, the surf, and the concerts at The Revelry, her family’s music venue, will spark inspiration. But when Joni gets there, nothing is how she left it. Her best friend is hiding something, her mother’s memories are fading fast, and The Revelry is closing.
How can Joni write when her world is leaving her behind?
Until she hears it. A melody in her head, lyric-less and half-formed, and an alluring and addictive voice to go with it—belonging, apparently, to a wry musician with an emptiness of his own.
Surely, he’s a figment of Joni’s overworked imagination.
Then a very real man shows up in Vienna Shores. He’s arrogant and guarded—nothing like the sweet, funny voice in Joni’s head—and he has a plan for breaking their inconvenient telepathic connection: finish the song haunting them both and hope they don’t risk their hearts—or their secrets—in the process.
Because that melody, the one drawing them together . . . what if it’s there for a reason?
Review
Praise for Sounds Like Love:
'Sounds Like Love gives new meaning to what it means to make a "connection" with someone. The whimsy and what-ifs of Ashley Poston’s novels have made her a must-buy for me!' Jodi Picoult
'Ashley Poston charms once again with Sounds Like Love. Deeply romantic and delightfully whimsical, every page had me humming along. This story will be on repeat in my head for a while' B.K. Borison
'I didn’t think it was possible to love Ashley Poston’s books any more than I already did, but SOUNDS LIKE LOVE is my new favorite. Romantic, deeply thoughtful, and exquisitely written, this one absolutely wrecked me' Annabel Monaghan
'A one of a kind talent, Ashley Poston writes books the way Taylor Swift writes songs, poetic but relatable and every single one a favourite. Sounds Like Love is Poston at her breathtaking best, blending the author's love of music with heartfelt storytelling and her trademark magical realism to perfection … By the end of the book, I was ugly crying so hard, my cats left the room. Even heartbreak feels good in an Ashley Poston book' Lindsey Kelk
'A sweet harmonious romance with a magical spark. Ashley Poston writes the bittersweet, the magical, and the joyous like no one else, and remains an auto-buy author for me!' Lizzie Huxley-Jones
Praise for Ashley Poston:
‘I LOVED this book. A beautiful, poignant story, full of beautiful, poignant characters … at once touching, funny, breathtaking, hopeful, and dreamy’ Ali Hazelwood
‘The Dead Romantics was an absolute and unexpected delight. Voicy and quirky and fun; the pages will probably sparkle (but with black glitter)’ Christina Lauren
‘The Seven Year Slip is a gorgeous love story from one of the finest romance writers out there. I laughed, I cried, I didn’t want it to end. Consider me Ashley Poston’s greatest admirer!’ Carley Fortune
Product details
- Publisher : HQ (17 June 2025); HarperCollins Publishers; enquiries@harpercollins.ie
- Language : English
- Paperback : 384 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0008644365
- ISBN-13 : 978-0008644369
- Item Weight : 292 g
- Dimensions : 12.9 x 3 x 19.8 cm
