The Best of Adam Sharp

國際暢銷書《蘿西計畫》與《蘿西效應》作者Graeme Simsion一部溫暖人心的新作。一本關於年華漸老卻感受年輕的故事，有歡樂的時光也有悲傷的回憶，有相聚也有分離，最重要的是，共同創作出的音樂，如何成就我們的生命之歌。你可以用一首歌定義你的人生嗎？Adam Sharp可以。他曾經是一家時髦酒吧的琴師，現在則是個讓人尊敬的電腦工程顧問。那首定義他人生的歌，叫做〈你將失去那個女孩〉。 Adam即將邁入50歲，是個內向但快樂的人，他很知足。在當地的酒吧，他是個音樂機智問答的能手，與伴侶Claire時有齟齬。生活未必是搖滾樂，但是它也不容易被傾聽。而且某些事情總是走了調。這就是他懷念過去的原因，20年前火熱的戀情，在世界的另一端，Angelina Brown，一個聰明、性感、意志堅強的女演員，人生第一次，他彈琴她唱歌，這意味著找到了卻又失去的”愛”。如果不讓她走，他的生命會有什麼不同？突然間，Angelina出現了。Adam唱起了第二春的歌，但是，他可有勇氣相信這個再次降臨的春之歌？The heart warming new novel from Graeme Simsion, the international bestselling author of The Rosie Project and The Rosie EffectCan you define your life by a single song?Adam Sharp - former pianist in a hip Melbourne bar, now a respectable IT consultant in Norwich - can. And it's 'You're Going to Lose that Girl' . . .On the cusp of fifty and a happy introvert, Adam is content. He's the music expert at his local pub-quiz and he and his partner Claire rumble along. Life may not be rock n' roll, but neither is it easy listening. Yet something has always felt off-key.And that's his nostalgia for what might have been, his blazing affair - more than twenty years ago, on the other side of the world - with Angelina Brown, a smart and sexy, strong-willed actress who taught him for the first time, as he played piano and she sang, what it meant to find - and then lose - love. How different might his life be if he hadn't let her walk away?Then, out of nowhere, Angelina gets in touch. Adam has sung about second chances, but does he have the courage to believe in them?The Best of Adam Sharp is about growing old and feeling young, about happy times and sad memories, about staying together and drifting apart, but most of all, it's about how the music we make together creates the soundtrack that shapes our lives.