David Gutowski, the man behind Largehearted Boy, is both a reader and a big music fan, and his US-based website brilliantly combines his love of the two.

I was thrilled, then, to contribute a piece to his Book Notes project, for which authors choose a playlist to match their novel and their life so far.

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Read the feature - and listen to the music - on the Largehearted Boy website