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THE PART OF YOU I LOOK FOR IN EVERYONE I MEET: (A decades-spanning muse-and-rockstar romance where the song that made him famous is the secret that nearly ... her)
(“Previously published as THE PART OF YOU I LOOK FOR IN EVERYONE I (A decades-spanning muse-and-rockstar romance where the song that made him famous is the secret that nearly destroyed her) by EMILY R. TOWNSEND.”)
She gave him the song that made him famous. He gave her a name the world would never forget.
Neither of them ever truly moved on.
In the sticky heat of a 1995 London summer, Nelly Griffin, a sharp-tongued Australian ex-pat with a broken filter and a soft heart, meets Tim Chaucher, a floppy-haired nobody busking in a Camden pub. He can’t tune a guitar to save his life, but when he sings, something in her unravels. They fall, messily, ferociously, completely.
Two years later, as Tim is on the brink of Britpop superstardom, Nelly is faced with a secret, and she flees.
Back home in rural Australia, she builds a quiet life, but his music follows her, with Oh Nelly, Tim’s breakout hit, a raw, aching anthem for the girl who disappeared. Everyone knows it. No one knows it’s about her.
Twenty-eight years later, Nelly is still ducking the past, until Tim announces a tour. Until her name is in lights again. Until they’re face to face, older, rawer, and still burning.
What happens when the muse comes back to life? When the man you left behind turns your heartbreak into legend? And when the truth finally claws its way out, do you run again, or finally sing?
The Part of You I Look For in Everyone I Meet is a whip-smart, gut-punching love story about music, memory, missed chances, and the messy art of letting go. For anyone who’s ever haunted a love song… or been haunted by one.
She gave him the song that made him famous. He gave her a name the world would never forget.
Neither of them ever truly moved on.
In the sticky heat of a 1995 London summer, Nelly Griffin, a sharp-tongued Australian ex-pat with a broken filter and a soft heart, meets Tim Chaucher, a floppy-haired nobody busking in a Camden pub. He can’t tune a guitar to save his life, but when he sings, something in her unravels. They fall, messily, ferociously, completely.
Two years later, as Tim is on the brink of Britpop superstardom, Nelly is faced with a secret, and she flees.
Back home in rural Australia, she builds a quiet life, but his music follows her, with Oh Nelly, Tim’s breakout hit, a raw, aching anthem for the girl who disappeared. Everyone knows it. No one knows it’s about her.
Twenty-eight years later, Nelly is still ducking the past, until Tim announces a tour. Until her name is in lights again. Until they’re face to face, older, rawer, and still burning.
What happens when the muse comes back to life? When the man you left behind turns your heartbreak into legend? And when the truth finally claws its way out, do you run again, or finally sing?
The Part of You I Look For in Everyone I Meet is a whip-smart, gut-punching love story about music, memory, missed chances, and the messy art of letting go. For anyone who’s ever haunted a love song… or been haunted by one.
283 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 9, 2025
About the author
Nick Pollack
107 books5 followersNick comes to writing through a visual lens, spending most of his career directing short films & commercials in Australia.
Romantic thriller ‘Pack Only What You Need’ is his second fiction title for adult readers, the first being a comedy romance ‘Any Girl Who Loves The Beatles Is Bound To Break Your Heart’, published in 2017.
In addition, he regularly writes novels and screenplays for the children & family market. He has written three books for middle-grade readers, a wish-fulfillment fantasy ‘The Magician’s Raincoat’ and the first two books in a series titled ‘Zodee Ack, My Imaginary Foe’, with a fourth due in late 2020.
He has collaborated on a Christmas adventure script called ‘AKA Nick Claus’ with screenwriter Diane Drake ('What Women Want', ‘Only You’), and is currently working on screenplays for several new family films to be released in 2020.
He's particularly proud to have received an Australian Director's Guild award for directing commercials, and he is in pre-production on several feature film projects. His recently completed short feature ‘And Though The Music Ended, We Danced On Through The Night’, premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival and collected accolades at over a dozen international festivals.
Romantic thriller ‘Pack Only What You Need’ is his second fiction title for adult readers, the first being a comedy romance ‘Any Girl Who Loves The Beatles Is Bound To Break Your Heart’, published in 2017.
In addition, he regularly writes novels and screenplays for the children & family market. He has written three books for middle-grade readers, a wish-fulfillment fantasy ‘The Magician’s Raincoat’ and the first two books in a series titled ‘Zodee Ack, My Imaginary Foe’, with a fourth due in late 2020.
He has collaborated on a Christmas adventure script called ‘AKA Nick Claus’ with screenwriter Diane Drake ('What Women Want', ‘Only You’), and is currently working on screenplays for several new family films to be released in 2020.
He's particularly proud to have received an Australian Director's Guild award for directing commercials, and he is in pre-production on several feature film projects. His recently completed short feature ‘And Though The Music Ended, We Danced On Through The Night’, premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival and collected accolades at over a dozen international festivals.
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