A thousand threads

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‘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 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.

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**Shortlisted 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

Additional information

Weight 0.414 kg
Dimensions 23.5 × 15.5 × 2.5 cm
Book_author

Cherry, Neneh

Publisher

Fern Press

Imprint

Fern Press

Cover

Paperback

Pages

336

Language

English

Edition

Export ed

Dewey

782.42164092 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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