Jane Start is the classic one-hit wonder. She had a massive chart-topping song a decade ago, gifted to her by the international music sensation Jonesy, and is now scrabbling around for work, doing private performances for stag parties and licensing her music for toilet paper ads in Holland.
If you don’t remember Jane Start, that’s because she’s entirely fictional, coming from the pen of founder member of the Bangles turned novelist Susanna Hoffs in her newly released debut This Bird Has Flown. But Jane Start is at the forefront of a vanguard that includes Daisy Jones, Jane Quinn and Opal – the new stars in a women-led resurgence of the rock’n’roll novel.
