My Family and Other Rock Stars

Paperback Published on: 01/05/2025
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My Family and Other Rock Stars
Recipes and Rock n Roll
You are a wee small girl and your mum cooks for visitors in the place you call home. You love dogs and adventures with the children who live on the farm w... READ MORE
Teresa@StNeots

Synopsis

'In a small corner of a field in Wales, Tiffany Murray is hiding with Boggle the dog, dreaming of her mum's moussaka, blackberry and apple crumble, and, if she's lucky, ice-cold lemonade. A sheep bleats. The smell of hay tickles her nose. The twang of a guitar and crack of a snare carry on the breeze.'

It's the late 1970s and Tiff lives with her mum, Joan, at Rockfield, the iconic recording studios. This place of legend, where some of the most famous rock albums of all time were recorded, is the background to a freewheeling, ever-changing whirlwind of a childhood. Tiff's days are spent running around the farm, making friends with local wildlife and helping out with the endless array of dishes her mum creates to keep the bands fed. She's looking for a dog, she's looking for a father; but the one constant throughout is her and Joan, building an unconventional family in the most unlikely of locations.

My Family and Other Rock Stars is Tiff's remarkable, truly unique story of growing up in a rural idyll, of Cordon Bleu cookery and of a childhood where the chances of bumping into Freddie Mercury playing piano, or a group of Hell's Angels turning up to record for Lemmy, or even the hope of David Bowie appearing, were as normal as hopscotch and homework.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
  • ISBN: 9780349727554
  • Number of pages: 400
  • Dimensions: 196 x 126 x 32 mm
  • Weight: 320g
  • Languages: English

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My Family and Other Rock Stars
If you ever wanted to know what Freddie Mercury ate for lunch, now is the time
A super entertaining memoir about a young girl growing up in the Seventies with a bohemian mother who just happens to be a cordon bleu cook and work at Roc... READ MORE
Katy Wheatley
My Family and Other Rock Stars
Wonderful
Just loved this memoir. The homage that it pays to her parents is beautiful. Joan and Fritz and the dogs Cleo, Lady, Boggle and Bess all come to life as y... READ MORE
fiona downes