A Thousand Threads

** 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 ''Inspiring'' ANNIE MACMANUS ''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

Product details

• Authors: Neneh Cherry
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.05.2025
• EAN: 9781529924954
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-2495-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 199 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Punk, New York, London, Greater London, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Rock & Pop music, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, Rap and Hip Hop, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, Memoirs, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Punk, Sweden, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, Pop Music, Popular Music, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Relating to people of the African diasporas / heritage, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / African American & Black