Songs in Ursa Major. Emma Brodie. 2021.

It’s the summer of 1969.

From the moment Jane Quinn steps barefoot onto the main stage at Island Folk Festival, her golden hair glinting, her voice soaring into the summer dusk, a star is born - and so is a passionate love story.

Jane’s band hits the road with Jesse Reid, the musician whose bright blue eyes are setting hearts alight everywhere. And as the summer streaks by in a haze of crowds, wild nights and magenta sunsets, Jane is pulled into the orbit of Jesse’s star.

But Jesse’s rise could mean Jane’s fall. And when she discovers a dark secret beneath his music, she writes her heartache into the album that could make or break her: Songs in Ursa Major.