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Standing Right in Front of Me is a non-fiction book built around a series of personal conversations exploring how a body of music accompanies a life - how it is first encountered, and how its meaning evolves over time.The focus is the music of the Beatles, approached not as biography or criticism, but as something lived with - and at different moments in life, newly immediate and significant.Each chapter is based on a single conversation, shaped into a reflective essay and approved by the participant.
Completed chaptersThough I Know I'll Never Lose Affection - Hunter Davies, Beatles' biographerAnd in the End... - Tom Holland, historian and broadcasterTake These Broken Wings - Professor Chloe Orkin, physician and global health advocateFurther chapters are currently in development with a small and deliberately varied group of contributors.Publication is anticipated in late 2026 or early 2027.