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Deep Cuts

By Holly Brickley
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Good songs come from love. Great songs come from heartbreak. Picked by Cosmopolitan and RED as a best book of 2025. Picked by The Bookseller as Book of the Month for March 2025 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 'Tender as a ballad and pleasurable as a pop song' COCO MELLORS... Read More
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Good songs come from love. Great songs come from heartbreak.

Picked by Cosmopolitan and RED as a best book of 2025.

Picked by The Bookseller as Book of the Month for March 2025

The biggest new debut of 2025: DAISY JONES AND THE SIX meets ONE DAY meets TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW

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Good songs come from love. Great songs come from heartbreak.

Picked by Cosmopolitan and RED as a best book of 2025.

Picked by The Bookseller as Book of the Month for March 2025

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'Tender as a ballad and pleasurable as a pop song' COCO MELLORS

'Clever and heart-wrenching and addictive' MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER

'An incredibly special book' BETH O'LEARY

'So relatable and enjoyable' GILLIAN MCALLISTER

The first time Joe plays Percy one of his songs in his college room in 2000, she instantly realises three things:

One, she is watching a star in the making.

Two, she can shape his music into something extraordinary.

Three, she will always be on the sidelines.

She swallows her jealousy and throws herself into collaboration, transforming Joe’s songs into indie hits with her blistering critiques. But there’s an undercurrent to the music they’re making – something undeniably electric, hurtling towards love. And then, almost inevitably, towards heartbreak.

As Joe steps into the spotlight, can Percy bear to watch on in silence? And can he exist there without her?

Deep Cuts is an irresistible novel about passion and obsession, love and longing and, above all, our need to be heard.

READERS ARE SAYING…

'The best debut novel I've ever read' ?????

'I need this book to come out so I can talk to at least one person about it!! Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow meets Normal People, with all the nostalgia of Almost Famous and High Fidelity … I really think it’s gonna be hard to read a better book this year!!!! ?????

'You need to add this to your TBR. Just trust me on this, ok?' ?????

'I can’t believe this book is a debut novel because of how good it is. I felt a mixture of Sally Rooney with Gabrielle Zevin and it was delicious' ?????

'I love it with all my heart, I'm super sad it's over and I will be insufferable when it's out' ?????

'I wish I could have written this book. I’m jealous of people who haven’t yet read this book' ?????

'This is an absolutely breathtaking debut. I cannot hammer that home enough' ?????

'I can’t believe this is a debut! It’s perfect for fans of One Day and Daisy Jones & The Six … This one hit me hard' ?????

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780008695835

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 March 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: The Borough Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 360g

Pages: 288

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About the Author

Holly Brickley was born and raised in Hope, British Columbia, a small town known primarily for being the filming location of the first Rambo movie. At 18 she moved to study English at UC Berkeley with an MFA in Fiction at Columbia University.

Instead of putting this education to any sort of literary use, she then spent a decade-plus running around San Francisco and New York, working in trend research and branding, and basically making a career of going out. She now lives with her husband and two daughters in a creaky old house in Portland, Oregon, where she prefers to stay in—and write. Deep Cuts is her debut novel.

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