Share the songs that make up the soundtrack to your life to win a £50 iTUNES VOUCHER!

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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of That Girl From Nowhere comes an emotional and gripping new novel.

Do you ever wonder if you’ve lived the life you were meant to?

In 1988, two eight-year-old girls with almost identical names and the same love of ballet meet for the first time. They seem destined to be best friends for ever and to become professional dancers. Years later, however, they have both been dealt so many cruel blows that they walk away from each other into very different futures – one enters a convent, the other becomes a minor celebrity. Will these new, ‘invisible’ lives be the ones they were meant to live, or will they only find that kind of salvation when they are reunited twenty years later?

While writing When I Was Invisible, Dorothy rediscovered her love for music – especially 80s tunes. Tell us which three songs make up the soundtrack of your life to win £50 iTunes voucher!

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Bolero by Ravel. First song I picked out on the keyboard when I was little, and then happened to be playing on hospital radio when my DS was born. So doubly special for me now :)

If you're not the one by Daniel Bedingfield - was just a current song when I first met DH. Still get all teary when I hear it.

Anything by REM really, they were the first band I got really obsessed with in my teens - they were out of fashion by then, but I sought out the whole back catalogue except Chronic Town which I never managed to find despite searching endlessly - I have a lot of favourites, couldn't choose just one.

I'm (not) ok - my chemical romance. I've spent a lot of my life telling people I'm ok when I wasn't really

No good - the prodigy. I was always very good at getting together with the wrong men but I was also quite good at walking away from them. This song always made me sure I was making the right decision

Zombie - Jamie T. It was the song that was playing when I got into my dps car for our first date. It has the line 'you made me alive enough to love again' which is how I feel about dp.

'A thousand years' by Christina Perri sums up my relationship with dh and actually works for the dc too.

'Your song' moulin rouge version is a special song as we were listening to it when we found out we were having dc1

'In the end' Linkin Park, got my through tough times at school and my 20's, even now I'll stick it on to remind myself that things get better.

Daughtry- waiting for superman

Beautiful song... I've always been stuck in awful relationships with horrible horrible men, and when I unexpectedly got pregnant with my son at 17, (and left to bring him up on my own) turns out when I had him... he was the superman I'd been waiting for my whole life

Debaser by Pixies
There is a light that never goes out by the Smiths
Something by the Beatles

Ecuador-sash. Soundtrack of my clubbing days with my best friend.
Cuz I can-pink. This song came out around the time I left my first husband. It just spoke to me as I felt I could be myself again, in fact that whole pink album (I'm not dead) did.
Better together-jack Johnson. Song that lulled ds to sleep. We spent night after night dancing round the bedroom with ds (and dd). It became part of us all so was our wedding song

I wanna know what love is- Foreigner. As a child my dad used to play it on the record player every night before bed. It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling, remembering very young days (about aged 4 or 5)

Deeper Shade of Blue- Steps. I have happy memories dancing to this with my school friends in our pjs in a caravan on my first ever holiday without my parents. We were drinking pints of wine. Good times.

Radiohead. Creep. My husband took me on a surprise trip to Scotland to see them when we hadn't been going out for long. It was the first time they sang Creep in about a decade. We got rained on and it didn't matter.

Ray Charles - Hit the Road Jack this song has been my father's incessant ear worm for donkey's years. The amount of times he's burst into a random rendition of it must be hitting the hundreds of thousands It's just the song of my childhood!

Ace of Base - All That She Wants for so many reasons! I got a really clear imaginative vision of a beach scene in my head when I first listened to it, and it still triggers that exact same picture all these years later: for me that's just the magic of music. I'm a huge HUGE reggae fan; and I can pinpoint my falling in love with the genre to the pop-dub-reggaeness of this song. Musically, it was a defining moment for me, and it was the doorway to the vast and rich genre, and all its associations, just creaking open. Great memories also of deep convos over the lyrics with my bff as a teen: did she want a baby? Was she going to steal a baby? Or did she want a boyfriend?!

Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb parents never really listened to or played me any music, but my mum's youngest brother (a lot younger) was a bit of a festival / gig goer. I would always sleep over my grandparents on Saturday night and I'd jump on his bed first thing Sunday morning. He'd always be super hungover (not that I realised at the time!!) but he'd never complain, and would teach me to play chess, let me nick his Simon Mayo confessions books and play me his favourite tracks, this being one of them.

The Wall has to be one of my favourite albums, so unbelievably groundbreaking too. And comfortably numb, although a bit of a cliched Floyd track to love, is just the clincher. Both solos are just so...immaculate. Just immaculate perfection. The sound of that fender!!! I could drown in it.

I will stop here because I could literally write all night about it. It's a track I'll never grown tired of listening to, and I have so many memories associated with it: good, bad, weird, sad and everything in between! It has quite literally punctuated my life.

Can't get no satisfaction, stones
Here comes the sun, Beatles
The scientist, Coldplay (nobody said it was easy) which is my current ear worm every morning getting the children ready for school
There's a theme there!

Mr Brightside by the killers, lovely day by Bill Withers and Mamma Mia by abba

Pencil Full Of Lead - Paolo Nutini. A real feel good track. I blast it loudly through my headphones when I have a moment of peace and do a bit of a dance in my wheelchair.

Handful Of Glitter - P!nk. A bit of emotion, but a bit of hope as well. It has some awesome lyrics that I can belt out.

You Haven't Seen The Last Of Me by Cher from Burlesque. With my health conditions, especially my mental health, I feel beaten down so often. This reminds me I can bounce back from more than I ever think I can. "I've been brought down to my knees - I've been pushed way past the point of breaking - but I can take it - I'll be back - back on my feet - this is far from over - you haven't seen the last of me".

Only 3 songs? That's going to be tough...
Depeche Mode are the soundtrack to my life. But if we're going to narrow it down to the 80s then the opening sequence of my life film story would be Everything Counts. While I apply make up in the mirror and stare moodily out of a moving car window.
The mid-story angst would be Story of the Blues by Wah.
The uplifting closing sequence would be Somewhere in My Heart by Aztec Camera.
Now I just need to write the story that fills the gaps between songs

Duran Duran-Save a prayer
" you wanted to dance so I asked you to dance but fear is in your soul, some people call it a one night stand but we can call it paradise"
The Cure -Pictures of you
"If only I'd thought of the right words
I could have held on to your heart
If only I'd thought of the right words
I wouldn't be breaking apart
All my pictures of you"
The Sunday's-Here's where the story ends
"But the only thing I ever really wanted to say was wrong, was wrong, was wrong"

Mr Brightside - The Killers

"I feel for you " by Rufus and Chuka Khan, always reminds me of my 16th Birthday party, I had a house party and to celebrate and this was played a thousand times!!

"Always and Forever " by Heatwave, this was my Wedding Dance song, it makes the hairs on my arms stand up ever time I hear it.

"Angels" by Robbie Williams, played at my Mother's funeral, makes me cry everytime I hear it.

Wishing I Was Lucky by Wet Wet Wet - first single I ever bought

Our Radio Rocks by PJ and Duncan - me and my sister used to love this song but it was more the extra track on the CD of them talking, it cracked us up every time

Love Changes Everything by Michael Ball - started a lifelong obsession with his music which is still going today

Marillion - kayleigh (was named after this song)
Robbie Williams - Rock Dj
Cyndi Lauper - girls just want to have fun

Under the boardwalk, sung by Bruce Willis, first slow dance with first boyfriend now husband. Love moves in mysterious ways by Julia Fordham, first dance at our wedding and Abba Dancing Queen, happy memories of school discos and never fails to cheer me up.

i love listening to music and have just made a playlist to get me through the london moonwalk
Wham - everything she wants -my teenage years
Eric clapton - wonderful tonight - my wedding song
Wonderwall - Oasis the year my son was born
Robbie williams - Eternity - became maternity as I had my daughter

Lovecats by the cure, reminds me of teenage angst.
Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2 reminds me of student angst.
Uprising by muse. I just like it.

Iggy Pop - Lust for life, it makes me smile and pogo around the kitchen
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel, I love nothing better than belting this song out when I'm driving the car.
Rolling Stones - Factory Girl, this is quite an obscure song but it reminds me of a very precise point in my teenage years.

Here's my three:

1. 99 Red Balloons (Nena) - one of my favourites when growing up. It reminds me of listening to the radio on a Sunday morning while helping to prepare the roast dinner. I still remember all the words many years later.

1. All I Want for Christmas.... (Mariah Carey) - Christmas is my most favourite time of year. It was magical as a child and now I make it magical for my own children. This song always gets me in the Christmas spirit and I love singing along to this with my children.

1. Alright Now (Free) - I grew up listening to this as my Dad was a bit of a rocker so it's the soundtrack to my childhood. It appears on tv advertisements now and is sometimes played on the radio and I always sing along. Unfortunately, I've not yet mastered the air guitar as well as my Dad but it's a work in progress!!