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Nine Eight Books signs 'era-defining' memoir from journalist Anna Doble
Nine Eight Books has signed journalist Anna Doble’s "poetic" memoir, Connection is a Song: Coming Up and Coming Out Through the Music of the 90s.
Pete Selby, publishing director, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Matthew Hamilton at the Hamilton Agency. The memoir will be published in hardback in May 2024.
Connection is a Song provides a "journey through the sounds of the 1990s" and is a "powerful, universal coming-of-age story about growing up in an English provincial town".
The publisher continued: "It is the tale of a young woman who, through connections made at school, at university, at gigs and in smoke-filled cars, finds the people and the places that will take her to her life."
Selby said: “Anna has captured the essence, thrill and complexity of growing up in the most beautiful and poetic manner. Seen through an ever changing prism of pop music, this is a book about coming of age, identity and musical and sexual epiphanies in Asda. Connection is a Song is an era-defining memoir for anyone who has ever been a teenager. Anna Doble is a remarkable new literary voice.”
Doble added: “You never know at the time that you are ‘in an era’ but in various shoeboxes with their odd mix of cassette tapes, I found the 1990s exactly as I had left them. Music, for me, connects like nothing else: conjuring up the people, places and moments my brain had put on a hard-to-reach shelf. Connection is a Song is a journey through the tracks that carried me from childhood to adulthood: there are bottles of Hooch, clouds of Impulse body spray and an encounter with Nicky Wire’s feather boa. I hope this story gives readers an excuse to smash open their own time capsules, and create new ones too."
