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Longlisted for the Women s Prize for Non Fiction 2025 The joyous and electric memoir from beloved music icon Neneh Cherry A SUNDAY TIMES GUARDIAN NEW STATESMAN EVENING STANDARD UNCUT AND ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 Intoxicating Seductive SUNDAY TIMES Fabulous VOGUE Top of the Pops December 1988 The world sat up as a young woman made her debut gold bra gold bomber jacket and proudly gloriously seven months pregnant This was no ordinary artist This was Neneh Cherry But navigating fame and family wasn t always simple In this beautiful and deeply personal memoir Cherry remembers the collaborations the highs and lows the friendships and loves and the addictions and traumas that have shaped her as a woman and an artist At the heart of it always is family the extraordinary three generations of artists and musicians that are her inheritance and her legacy Musician Songwriter Collaborator Activist Mother Daughter Lover Friend Icon This is her story I loved it ZADIE SMITH Enthralling BERNARDINE EVARISTO Thrums with life GUARDIAN A living testament to artistic invention OBSERVER