Author Tiffany Murray will talk about her unique childhood in and around Ross on Wye, Monmouth and Rockfield Studios.

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.

With numerous local connections – Fritz of Fritz Fryer 12, Brookend St was Tiff’s Stepdad for example - this event will appeal to music fans as well as those who also lived in Ross on Wye during the 70’s and 80’s.

Published last year in hardback, the book became a book of the year for the Times, the Sunday Times, the Independent, the Guardian and the Daily Mail.

This event takes place at St Mary’s Church Ross-on-Wye on Thursday May 15th at 7pm also paperback publication day and the paperback edition of the book will be on sale at the event, with £3 off. Tiffany will be signing copies after the talk.

Tickets for the event available from Rossiter Books, The Corn Exchange, Ross on Wye | 01989 564464 or rossiterbooks.co.uk

‘Charming . . . heartbreaking, sometimes both funny and unsettling, and always – from start to end – very, very good’ RODDY DOYLE‘Magical . . . 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 love letter to a remarkable childhood. A total joy’ SARAH WINMAN

‘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. An utter treat’ RACHEL JOYCE

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