The Singer Sisters: An escapist family drama full of glamour and secrets

Sarah Seltzer

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'Compulsory summer reading' Laura Jane Williams

'Arguably better than Daisy Jones and The Six' InStyle

LOVE CONNECTS THEM.

MUSIC DIVIDES THEM.

SECRETS COULD TEAR THEM APART . . .

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1967: Judie Zingerman is rising to stardom as one half of folk duo the Singer Sisters.

As she and her sister Sylvia tour coast to coast, crowds can't get enough of Judie's confessional lyrics. Everyone can see they're heading for new heights. Yet something is about to push them off course...

1996: Alt-rocker Emma Cantor is playing the festival circuit, with her sights on a record deal. Emma has never understood why her mother, folk icon Judie Zingerman, gave up music at the height of her success.

But as Emma is catapulted into the spotlight as an MTV darling and LA It girl, fame brings its own heartache. Could discovering her mother's long-kept secrets help Emma find her path again?

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If you loved DAISY JONES AND THE SIX, this is the perfect page-turner to escape with this summer. Let yourself be transported across the decades by the story of this notorious musical family, following their rises to stardom, their heartbreaks and mistakes, and the secrets that their fans could never imagine.

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Praise for The Singer Sisters: An escapist family drama full of glamour and secrets

  • Family drama, unexpected love stories and of course, music, make this pulse with life. It's arguably better than Daisy Jones and The Six... - InStyleAn epic! . . . a rock & roll saga of a folk-rock family through two drama-filled generations, the Sixties and the Nineties - Rolling StoneUtterly addictive - Woman's Own'Books To See You Through Summer' . . . Two women in music, three decades apart. The one constant? The men controlling the industry - GraziaImmersive, atmospheric, and absorbing, with three beautifully interwoven stories, The Singer Sisters somehow left me nostalgic for a time and place I've never experienced outside this wonderful novelA gloriously accomplished debut novel that reads like Sarah Saltzer has been crafting stories for decades. The Singer Sisters is a nuanced family drama disguised as a rock n roll tale of fame, fortune, and what it feels like to be a person who simply must create. Compulsory summer reading.My favourite read of the summer . . . Women are the beating heart of this book, and it's a magnetic story about siblings, mothers and daughters; the things about each other we fail to see; and a yearning to be seen - all with the pulse of musical creativity driving it. It was one of those books that, when I finished it, I wished I could be friends with the characters

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