Yesterday's Song

Yesterday's Song, a novel

One simple song can change everything for those whose story began at a 1970 rock festival.

As the 1970s dawn in Virginia, grieving guitarist Cal Leonardowski is ready to end it all when he hears Hendrix will play at the Second Atlanta International Pop Festival. He delays the devastating thought for the rock and roll respite, and there he falls for a kindred spirit, adventurous, Beatles-loving Nainsi Murphy, from County Dublin, who only wants to do what her late Ma never got: to build a music industry career in America. Yet love changes everything, as does an exploding world. Just as she painfully chooses between family, country, religion, and her own dreams, Cal opens the letter of a lifetime and makes a drunken, desperate choice of his own. What becomes of the broken-hearted, created in peace, love, and music, but torn apart in the times?

The story follows the struggling characters searching for answers, longing for the truth, just as one forgotten, remorseful 1970s song hides the story of a lifetime...

Told amid a backdrop of history and pop culture spanning the 1970s and 1980s, this coming-of-age story for two generations offers a nostalgic '70s playlist and thoughtful questions for a book club discussing the ways we find peace and know we're not alone. With an ode to the healing, enduring, connecting power of music in times of trouble, the sentimental, psychological saga YESTERDAY'S SONG explores recovery from loss, the definition of family, the necessity of love, and the nature of forgiveness and redemption. Maybe it's never too late to find your own voice-and hear another's-- if you can just get back to the heart of it all.

Sometimes, hope is right under your ears.