I came across this musical memoir by Lavina Greenlaw during one of the gleeful, anarchic sweeps I've been making through the local library since acquiring a new library card, thought 'hmm, that looks interesting' and dumped it into my bookbag where it languished under a pile of genre fiction for a few weeks, waiting its turn.

Now that I've picked it up and read the thing, I'm kicking myself for not putting it on the top of my 'to read' pile immediately as it is absolutely fantastic. All the passion and pain and riotous, furious energy of growing up and growing into music is writ large here and reading it makes me feel about fifteen again and so very, very alive.

If music has ever been your life ... or at least the soundtrack to it, pick this up and have a read. I think you'll like it.