The sound of being human

'The Sound of Being Human' explores, in detail, why music plays such a deep-rooted role in so many lives, from before we are born to our last days. At its heart is the author's own story: how songs helped her wrestle with the grief of losing her father at age five; concoct her own sense of self as a lonely adolescent; sky-rocket her relationships, both real and imagined, in the flushes of early womanhood, propel her own journey into working life, adulthood and parenthood, and look to the future.