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jazzy_daveTracey Thorn "Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia" (Canongate)
Short but sweet, Everything But The Girl singer Tracey Thorn manages to pack a lot into her memoirs! Based on the uneventful entries in her teenage diaries, Tracey considers growing up in 70s suburbia, with an interesting history of the commuter village where her parents settled, and her bid to escape woodland and semi-detached houses for the freedom of London. She talks about her relationship with her parents, including her father's death and an attempt to understand her mother's life after having children of her own, but also muses on broader subjects like class and feminism. Funny but also touching in places, I read the whole book in one setting - only 200 pages, granted.
Short but sweet, Everything But The Girl singer Tracey Thorn manages to pack a lot into her memoirs! Based on the uneventful entries in her teenage diaries, Tracey considers growing up in 70s suburbia, with an interesting history of the commuter village where her parents settled, and her bid to escape woodland and semi-detached houses for the freedom of London. She talks about her relationship with her parents, including her father's death and an attempt to understand her mother's life after having children of her own, but also muses on broader subjects like class and feminism. Funny but also touching in places, I read the whole book in one setting - only 200 pages, granted.
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