Heard It in a Love Song: A Novel

Written by Tracey Garvis Graves

Narrated by Andi Arndt

From Tracey Garvis Graves, the bestselling author of The Girl He Used to Know comes a love song of a story about starting over and second chances in Heard It in a Love Song.

Love doesn’t always wait until you’re ready.

Layla Hilding is thirty-five and recently divorced. Struggling to break free from the past—her glory days as the lead singer in a band and a ten-year marriage to a man who never put her first—Layla’s newly found independence feels a lot like loneliness.

Then there's Josh, the single dad whose daughter attends the elementary school where Layla teaches music. Recently separated, he's still processing the end of his twenty-year marriage to his high school sweetheart. He chats with Layla every morning at school and finds himself thinking about her more and more.

Equally cautious and confused about dating in a world that favors apps over meeting organically, Layla and Josh decide to be friends with the potential for something more. Sounds sensible and way too simple—but when two people are on the rebound, is it heartbreak or happiness that’s a love song away?

A Macmillan Audio Production from St. Martin's Press

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio
• Release date: Nov 9, 2021
• ISBN: 9781250819741

Tracey Garvis Graves

TRACEY GARVIS GRAVES is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author. Her debut novel, On the Island, spent 9 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and is in development with MGM and Temple Hill Productions for a feature film. She is also the author of Heard It in a Love Song, The Girl He Used to Know, Uncharted, Covet, Every Time I Think of You, Cherish, Heart-Shaped Hack, and White Hot Hack. She is hard at work on her next novel.

Reviews for Heard It in a Love Song

[Ann Johnson · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A really sweet story. Fairly predictable story, but it's an enjoyable book.

[Emily Lassiter Branch · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This was the first book I’ve read by Tracey Garvis Graves. I’ve had a couple of her earlier books on my TBR list for a while now, but something shiny kept distracting me from getting to them. I’ve moved them up on my priority list after reading Heard It in a Love Song.
Going in I wasn’t sure whether it was actually classified as a “romance”, and at times I was tempted to check on that, because as I listened to this audiobook I was really pulling for the two main characters, Layla and Josh, to find their way to happily ever after. But I refrained, because I wanted it to unfold as written, and it definitely could’ve gone either way. We learn about their respective pasts in flashbacks - occasionally it was a bit disconcerting as their memories would kick in. And their past relationships and heartaches definitely inform their present feelings about love and commitment and how each of them wants - needs - to live their lives. It was a nice journey, past and present, that Graves takes us on with this book, and I look forward to reading more of her novels.
This was the audio version, and the narration was excellent - Andi Arndt never disappoints.
My thanks to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio for providing a copy for an unbiased review.