City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

The High Notes, Danielle Steel

eng

Adult

fiction

The High Notes

Danielle Steel

Literature. Contemporary Fiction. Iris Cooper has been singing ever since she can remember, hitting the high notes like no one else. When she is 12, her father convinces the owner of a bar in Lake City, Texas, to let her perform, and she stuns the audience. In the ensuing years, never staying anywhere for long, father and daughter move from one dusty town to the next, her passion for music growing every time she takes the mike in another roadhouse. But it is not an easy life for Iris with her father in charge and using her income to pay for gambling, women and booze. When she starts to tour at age 18, she takes on a real manager. Yet he exploits her too, and the singers and musicians she tours with are really the only family she has. It is they who give Iris the courage to finally fly free, leave the tour and follow her dreams. After years of enduring the hardships of the road, exploitation and abuse to do what she loves, Iris's big chance comes as her talent soars. But at the top at last, Iris still has to fight every step of the way

adult