Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia

by Tracey Thorn

Overview

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 'Tender, wise and funny' Sunday Express 'Beautifully observed, deadly funny' Max Porter Before becoming an acclaimed musician and writer, Tracey Thorn was a typical teenager: bored and cynical, despairing of her aspirational parents. Her only comfort came from house parties and the female pop icons who hinted at a new kind of living. Returning to the scene of her childhood, Thorn takes us beyond the bus shelters, the pub car parks and the weekly discos, to the parents who wanted so much for their children and the children who wanted none of it. With great wit and insight, Thorn reconsiders the Green Belt post-war dream so many artists have mocked, and yet so many artists have come from.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786892577
Publisher:	Canongate Books
Publication date:	02/07/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Tracey Thorn is a singer-songwriter and writer, best known for her seventeen years in bestselling duo Everything But The Girl. She grew up as the youngest of three children in Brookmans Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, where she learned the piano, enjoyed underaged drinking, and started her first band while still at school. Since then, she has released four solo albums, one movie soundtrack, a large handful of singles and two books, including the Sunday Times bestselling memoir, Bedsit Disco Queen, and currently writes a column for the New Statesman. She lives in London, with her husband Ben Watt and their three children. @tracey_thorn | traceythorn.com

Editorial Reviews

Exceptional . . . Made me catch my breath . . . Though Thorn tells us sharp truths, we gobble them up because she delivers them in such a deceptively pretty, poignant way” Financial Times

“When Thorn digs into her adolescence, the book sparks with wit and poignancy, helped by extracts from her teenage diaries that she smartly exploits for comedy and bathos” Sunday Times

“Tender, wise and funny” Sunday Express

“I adored this. Wise, tender, beautifully observed, deadly funny” MAX PORTER

From the Publisher

I adored this. Wise, tender, beautifully observed, deadly funny.

Max Porter

Another Planet is about being a teenager in suburbia in the 1970s, and revisiting one’s own youth from middle age. It touches on class, culture, music, plum jam and parenting teens. It’s wonderful. You’ll read it in one go.

Nina Stibbe

Another Planet is a poignant, rueful, tender portrait of a world so little written about, but which so many of us will recognise. I devoured it. Thorn is a brilliant writer, and a brilliantly insightful chronicler of a certain type of English experience.

Melissa Harrison

I devoured Another Planet. Thorn’s intimate reflections on teenage angst, motherhood, panic attacks, family and music are so moving and insightful, and written with wit and sensitivity.

Cosey Fanni Tutti

Tracey Thorn turns the tables on her teenage boredom and chips a jewel out of doing stuff – and not doing stuff –in suburbia. A meditation on mooching and moping, escaping and finding, mums and dads, love and ageing, which is reflective, warm and deeply touching.

Keggie Carew

I loved it. Thorn is the rarest of things: a singer whose phrasing is as good on the page as it is through a microphone.

John Niven