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Mix Tape

Jane Sanderson
Chapters (37)
  1. Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. MIX TAPE
  4. Dedication
  5. 1
  6. 2
  7. 3
  8. 4
  9. 5
  10. 6
  11. 7
  12. 8
  13. 9
  14. 10
  15. 11
  16. 12
  17. 13
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  28. 24
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  30. 26
  31. 27
  32. 28
  33. 29
  34. 30
  35. Song Credits
  36. Acknowledgements
  37. THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING

Cover

Mix Tape

About the Author

JANE SANDERSON is a writer and journalist. She worked as a producer for BBC Radio 4 on The World at One and Woman’s Hour before becoming a novelist. She lives with her husband in Herefordshire, and they also have a houseboat in London.

Jane’s previous novels include This Much Is True, Netherwood, Ravenscliffe and Eden Falls. Mix Tape is her latest.

@SandersonJane

Ali and Dan’s

MIX TAPE

‘PUMP IT UP’ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS

‘PICTURE THIS’ BLONDIE

‘WAITING FOR A MIRACLE’ THE COMSAT ANGELS

‘I DIDN’T SEE IT COMING’ BELLE AND SEBASTIAN

‘THINKIN BOUT YOU’ FRANK OCEAN

‘SO FAR AWAY’ CAROLE KING

‘LET’S DANCE’ M. WARD

‘WILD IS THE WIND’ DAVID BOWIE

‘NORTHERN SKY’ NICK DRAKE

‘FROM THE MORNING’ NICK DRAKE

‘ROAD’ NICK DRAKE

‘I FALL APART’ RORY GALLAGHER

‘I’M NOT SURPRISED’ RORY GALLAGHER

‘DO I WANNA KNOW?’ ARCTIC MONKEYS

‘OPEN UP YOUR DOOR’ RICHARD HAWLEY

‘I GO TO SLEEP’ THE PRETENDERS

‘GO DOWN EASY’ JOHN MARTYN

‘YOU’RE THE BEST THING’ THE STYLE COUNCIL

‘SOMEONE LIKE YOU’ VAN MORRISON

‘A CASE OF YOU’ JONI MITCHELL

‘SUNSHINE SUPERMAN’ DONOVAN

‘I WANT YOU’ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS

‘I CLOSE MY EYES AND COUNT TO TEN’ DUSTY SPRINGFIELD

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Dedication

For Melanie

1

SHEFFIELD,
23 DECEMBER 1978

There they go, at the beginning of it all, their younger selves, walking through the dark, winter streets of Sheffield: Daniel Lawrence and Alison Connor. He’s eighteen, she’s sixteen, it’s Saturday night and they’re heading together to Kev Carter’s Christmas party, and nothing much has been said since he met her from the bus, but each is achingly conscious of the other. Her hand in his feels too good to be only a hand, and his presence, by her side, makes her mouth feel dry, and her heart beat too quickly, too close to the skin. They walk in step with each other along the pavement, and there isn’t far to go from the bus stop to Kev’s house, so it’s not long before a throb of music fills the silence between them, and he glances down, just as she looks up, and they smile, and he feels that pulse of pure longing he gets when Alison’s eyes alight upon him, and she … well, she can’t think when she’s ever felt this happy.