Favourite songs: Wonderful Life (Katie Melua)

I love Katie Melua’s version of Wonderful Life. Knowing that she recorded it several years after a serious mental health crisis makes it especially poignant for me. There’s a tenderness and melancholy in her voice that gives the song’s hope such depth. I hear it as an affirmation of life that makes room for its pain—a quiet recognition that, even after great suffering, there is still beauty to discover and life to love.

Favourite songs (London & Cambridge years)

These albums and songs were my anthems and soundtrack while I lived in London and Cambridge.