In the shadowed glow of 1997 Sydney, where cassette tapes hiss and memory hums like feedback, music journalist Evie Callahan presses play on the interview that changed her life, and begins to unravel the decades that led her there.

Fresh from a rare conversation with David Bowie, intimate, unrehearsed, quietly electrifying, Evie returns home to write the story she’s carried for seventeen years. But as Bowie’s voice crackles through her old tape recorder, each answer pulls her back through time: to Berlin’s post-punk squats, to smoky dive bars and gallery openings, and to Lukas Weber, the reclusive German painter she once loved with reckless devotion.

Their romance was all nerve endings and neon, tangled in politics, ambition, and the ache of youth. But in chasing Bowie’s ever-shifting shadow, Evie lost sight of her own reflection. Now, as she listens to the music that raised her, and the man who once saw her most clearly, Evie must decide if the past is a closed door… or an unfinished verse.

From the concrete poetry of Berlin to the salt-air solitude of Elizabeth Bay, Vinyl Vows: A Bowie Love Story is a sweeping, time-twisting love story about the lives we build through the music we live by. Featuring an unforgettable supporting cast, Graeme, a Bowie impersonator with a fading spotlight; Tony, a café owner who unknowingly served tea to a legend; and Lukas, whose silence paints louder than words, this novel hums with nostalgia, longing, and grace.

For fans of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, The Museum of Modern Love, and anyone who ever loved someone like a song, Vinyl Vows: A Bowie Love Story is a reverent, romantic ode to the people, and the music, that shape who we become.

Tune in. Turn it over. This is a love story that lingers in the static.