The British novelist’s first memoir is a sublime account of famed Welsh music studio Rockfield, where her indomitable mother ruled the kitchen in the 70s and rock’n’rollers were great fun – and infuriating
ometimes the most compelling family memoirs are not those that recount particularly extraordinary lives but which, rather, are told in the most beguiling voice. Tiffany Murray recounts hers from the perspective of an eight-year-old and so fills these pages with the giddy, carbonated fizz of prepubescence. She erupts frequently into different-sized fonts whenever she needs to convey maximum glee and trips into onomatopoeia when normal words simply won’t suffice.
While Rockfield is Murray’s adventure playground and the woods outside the perfect place to roam with her great dane, her mother is having an existential crisis over paella in the pan and smoked trout mousse. Her barbary duck is a firm favourite of the Teardrop Explodes.dances around the grounds naked, waking and scaring Murray. While he repents the next day by ordering her a lorryload of toys from Harrods, Joan is furious. But then Joan’s emotions are routinely stretched to breaking point.
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