AUTHOR Tiffany Murray will talk about her unique childhood at Rockfield Studios and in the Wye Valley.

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.

Tiffany, whose stepdad ran a fish and chip shop in the centre of Ross, will speak at the town’s St Mary’s Church, on Thursday, May 15 at 7pm.

With numerous local connections, the event will appeal to music fans as well as those who also lived in the area during the 1970s and 1980s.

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.

Admission is £8 and the event takes place on paperback publication day, with the paperback edition on sale at the event, which Tiffany will be signing copies of after the talk.

Tickets are available from Rossiter Books, The Corn Exchange, Ross, or by calling 01989 564464 or visiting rossiterbooks.co.uk.

The book has been described by Roddy Doyle as ‘Charming . . . heartbreaking, sometimes both funny and unsettling, and always – from start to end – very, very good’

It was the Daily Mail book of the week and described as being ‘scrumptious as the home-made mayonnaise, pumpkin soup and game pie coming out of Joan’s kitchen’.

Sarah Winman labelled it ‘a love letter to a remarkable childhood’, while Rachel Joyce said: “You will fall in love with Tiff, her hilarious non-nonsense mother Joan, and a cast of hungry rock stars.”