Deep Cuts
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Deep Cuts
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Narrated by:
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Jayme Mattler
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By:
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Holly Brickley
About this listen
Good songs come from love. Great songs come from heartbreak.
Picked by Cosmopolitan as a best book of 2025.
Picked by The Bookseller as their 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.
©2025 Holly Brickley (P)2025 Penguin Random House LLCCritic Reviews
‘Tender as a ballad and pleasurable as a pop song, Deep Cuts is both a nostalgic romp into the indie sleaze era of the early aughts and a timeless love story of creative collaboration, competition and ambition’ Coco Mellors, author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Blue Sisters
'I absolutely loved Deep Cuts — clever and heart-wrenching and addictive, the kind of novel that grabs you in an instant and takes you reeling through its pages' Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace
'I find it hard to remember the last time I found a novel so relatable and enjoyable. Prepare to fall in love with Percy and Joe this spring' Gillian McAllister, author of Wrong Place, Wrong Time
'An incredibly special book, one of the best I've read in a very long time. Moving, beautiful, rich with emotion, it's an epic love story and the story of a woman finding her creative power, all rolled into one. Extraordinary' Beth O'Leary, author of The Flatshare
‘Warm, nostalgic, totally engrossing. I loved this novel’ Liz Moore, author of The God of the Woods
'Every writer knows the highest compliment is envy: I wish I'd written that. Holly Brickley's Deep Cuts is a joy: fizzy, moving, endlessly smart. Brickley doesn't just write well about music, she anatomizes why and how we love it, and she makes us feel the stakes of that love. So: I wish I'd written that. The other person I'm envious of is you, because you're about to read this deeply wonderful book for the first time' Claire Dederer, author of Monsters
‘I’d never really identified with the phrase “screaming, crying, throwing up” before I read, and fell head over heels in love with this incredible novel, which is perfectly billed as Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow meets Daisy Jones and the Six and One Day. But now I get it … This is rich, immersive and transportive storytelling … and the result is breathtaking. Can you tell I’m obsessed? I really think this is going to be huge’ The Bookseller, Book of the Month, March 2025