My Family & Other Rock Stars Gloriously tender & funny .

A book of the year for the Times, the Sunday Times, the Independent, the Guardian and the Daily MailCharming . . . heartbreaking, sometimes both funny and unsettling, and always from start to end very, very good RODDY DOYLEMagical . . . as scrumptious as the homemade mayonnaise, pumpkin soup and game pie coming out of Joans kitchen DAILY MAIL, BOOK OF THE WEEKA love letter to a remarkable childhood. A total joy SARAH WINMANIn a small corner of a field in Wales, Tiffany Murray is hiding with Boggle the dog, dreaming of her mums moussaka, blackberry and apple crumble, and, if shes lucky, icecold 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. Its 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, everchanging whirlwind of a childhood. Tiffs 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. Shes looking for a dog, shes 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 Tiffs remarkable, truly unique story of growing up in a rural idyll, of Cordon Bleu cookery and of a childhood where the chances of... | Tiffany Murray My Family & Other Rock Stars : 'Gloriously tender & funny .