The Lost Love Song, Minnie Darke
The Lost Love Song, Minnie Darke
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The Lost Love Song

Author: Minnie Darke

Narrator: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood, Marcello Fabrizi

Unabridged: 11 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/13/2020


Synopsis

Behind every great love song is a great love story, from the author of Star-Crossed

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • “A tender tribute to the healing powers of love and music . . . Readers will be wowed.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Concert pianist Diana is finally ready to marry her longtime fiance, Arie; she’s even composing a beautiful love song for him, and finishes it while on tour. Before she can play it for him, though, tragedy strikes—and Diana is lost to Arie forever.

But her song might not be.

In Australia, the world has gone quiet for Arie and he lives his life accordingly, struggling to cope with his loss. In Scotland, a woman named Evie is taking stock of her life after the end of another lackluster almost-relationship. Years of wandering the globe and failing to publish her poetry have taken their toll, and she might finally be ready to find what her travels have never been able to give her: a real home. And through a quirk of fate or circumstance, Diana’s song is passed from musician to musician. By winding its way around the world, it just might bring these two lost souls together.

With heart-wrenching emotion, The Last Love Song explores what it means to be lost, what it means to be found, and the power of music to bring people together.

About The Author

Minnie Darke is the author of the romantic comedy Star-Crossed, which has now been published in over 30 countries. She lives in Tasmania, Australia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer on July 03, 2021

Red rimmed, running nose, blotchy face: side effects of reading something directly addresses to your soul, emotional, heartfelt. Wow! What a beautiful, poetic, genuine, bittersweet story about the exhilarating journey of love song which saves people’s souls and gives them a real reason to move on an......more

Goodreads review by jessica on August 05, 2020

the romantic in me desperately wanted to love this, and the story idea itself is indeed a dream for all romantics out there, but the realist in me just could not get over some aspects of this. again, the idea is adorable, but i had a difficult time believing the connection between the two main chara......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on October 14, 2020

The Lost Love Song is a fantastic romance above love and loss. There are so many facets of this book that I won’t say much because I’m afraid of ruining something. The Lost Love Song is about a song that finds its way to different couples. There is the main story and then a few side character stories......more

Goodreads review by Susan's Reviews on August 21, 2021

. . . . . . . . Minnie Darke is a very lyrical writer. One of the main characters in this novel, Evie, is a wandering poet and in her Acknowledgement, the author gives credit for the the poems that Evie shares with us to Young Dawkins Young, a local poet in Hobart, Tasmania. This is one of my favouri......more

Goodreads review by Ceecee on June 27, 2020

Title is Long Lost Love Song. How do Arie Johnson, Bene Romero, his daughter Beatrix, her first love Felix Carter, traveller and hopeful poet Evie Greenless connect? Through a long lost love song sung by Lucie Dorian which came to her via a very circuitous route. Though none of them knew it the melo......more


Quotes

“[A] lively and charming novel.”The Sydney Morning Herald (pick of the week)
 
“Clever, warm-hearted and a touch bittersweet, with an ending as satisfying as the plagal cadence Diana loves, The Lost Love Song will have readers hoping for all of Darke’s characters to find true happiness—musical and otherwise.”—Shelf Awareness

“A heart-warming, bittersweet, and moving story . . . The Lost Love Song is a tribute to living and loving.”—The Nerd Daily
 
“This sweeping, life-affirming tearjerker from Minnie Darke tracks a love song as it makes its way around the world, touching lives and hearts as it passes from musician to musician, ultimately offering a grieving man a second chance at love. Darke makes a powerful case for the healing power of music with this vibrant romantic panorama.”Publishers Weekly (Best Books 2020)