My Family And Other Rock Stars By Tiffany Murray

Murray, a sublime memoirist, has written the most beautiful of tributes to a fierce and indomitable spirit . . . This childhood tale, then, is Cider With Rosie, but fuelled with something far stronger – Lemmy's Jack Daniel's, perhaps
Observer, Book of the Day

Magical . . . My Family and Other Rock Stars is 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 delightful childhood memoir . . . full of anecdotes to make you smile
Independent Book of the Month

My Family and Other Rock Stars is Murray's gloriously tender and funny account of her unconventional upbringing, a music memoir that reveals as much about the mores of the 1970s and 1980s rock scene as a hundred serious surveys of mixing desks and demo tapes would . . . a playfully arranged account of a remarkable childhood that is testament to the love and connection that music and food can bring. With My Family and Other Rock Stars Murray has written a bohemian rhapsody of her very own
Sunday Times

Funny, vivid and touching, above all fizzing with joy, this is a tribute to an extraordinary childhood, both feral and advanced beyond its years. You will fall in love with Tiff, her hilarious non-nonsense mother Joan, and a cast of hungry rock stars from Freddie Mercury to Siouxsie Sioux. Tiffany Murray's skill is in capturing the changing world of a child with such giddy, heartbreaking enthusiasm, and not one tiny note of self pity. An utter treat
Rachel Joyce

My Family and Other Rock Stars is sometimes charming, sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes both funny and unsettling, and always – from start to end – very, very good
Roddy Doyle

A love letter to a remarkable childhood. To the music that shaped it and to the two people who watched over it. Enchanting and unique. A total joy
Sarah Winman

I loved Tiffany's memoir, what an utter joy! Like a really great romp of a novel, a Hideous Kinky for Wales. I can think of at least ten people who must read it at once
Ella Risbridger, author of MIDNIGHT CHICKEN

Race to preorder Tiffany Murray's enchanting memoir, My Family & Other Rock Stars. It's a rock and roll Cider With Rosie cooked up by Elizabeth David at her most caustic and more than a touch of the blissfully feral childhood evoked in Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Patrick Gale

One of the best I've read all year. Full of pop gossip that'll leave you starry-eyed, and written with a warmth and precision you'll want to savour for as long as you can. And it has recipes! My strongest possible recommendation. . . I didn't want it to end
S�amas O’Reilly

Give it up for My Family and Other Rock Starsin which Tiffany Murray tells the story of a childhood spent at the legendary Rockfield Studios in Wales, where her mother worked as a cordon bleu chef for artists including David Bowie, Queen and – yes – Mot�rhead. It couldn't sound more delicious if it tried
Rachel Cooke

Tiffany Murray disproves the saying that if you can remember what happened you weren't really there. Her memoir My Family and Other Rock Stars including Queen and David Bowie is one of the loveliest books I've read all year
John Crace

This book is the BEE'S KNEES. Exuberant, poignant, incredibly well-written, with fresh delights on every page. Rock stars and recipes, childhood and wonder. I wish more books were this good!
Lauren Elkin

Tiff's book is an insane amount of fun. And such good company. Everyone's here, from Freddie Mercury to Elizabeth David – and of course, Mum, the indefatigable queen of the show. It's witty and sweet, and perfectly captures the highs and lows of an extraordinary childhood. Reading it felt like listening to a piece of music (a nice fat side of vinyl) I hadn't heard in too long, and then, alone in the kitchen, and at risk of breaking glasses and God knows, starting to dance
Andrew Miller