I write enough memoir (40), but I've always loved to read them too. This is a nice take on growing up in the 1970's/'80's - same period as my own memoir covers, but in an unusual world, as part of a family that lives in the famous Rockfield Recording studios.
It's pastoral, rural, landscape describing, all the feels, but also, those mad family moments given there are rock stars at hand all day and all of the night.
A book of the summer for The Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Good Housekeeping, Irish Independent and Irish Times 'Gloriously tender and funny . . . with My Family and Other Rock Stars, Murray has written a bohemian rhapsody of her very own' SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE WEEK
'Magical . . . as scrumptious as the home-made mayonnaise, pumpkin soup and game pie coming out of Joan's kitchen' DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK
'A love letter to a remarkable childhood' SARAH WINMAN
'Full of pop gossip that'll leave you starry-eyed, and written with a warmth and precision you'll want…
**Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2023**
**Chosen as a book to watch out for in 2023 by The Times, Observer, Guardian, Irish TImes and Scotsman**
'An epic the north has long deserved' FINANCIAL TIMES
'A sensational piece of storytelling ... A singular and significant achievement' GUARDIAN
'Marvellous, artful, enchanted' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Cements Myers's standing as one of our finest, and most deftly imaginative, writers' I NEWS
The triumphant new novel from the Walter Scott Prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole and The Offing
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown—and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart.
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A novel of historical
fiction set before and after the Second World War in working-class Manchester,
it chronicles the life of Muriel, A giddy kipper of a girl who craves the
spotlight of a movie star.
An ordinary girl with extraordinary dreams. Growing
up in a family who behaved as if love was on ration, her restless spirit sparks
through her dancing shoes and love of the paintings of Ford Madox Brown.
Her
spirit creates struggles with her fragile mind. Can Muriel find a balance in
her fractured life held together with love?
