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**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
‘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

Publisher Review

Thrums with life . . . A Thousand Threads searches for feelings transient and timeless, keeps keeping on, never says maybe * GUARDIAN, *Book of the Day* * Seductive . . . Intoxicating . . . Bears witness to life’s messy complexities, going beyond platitudes to ask questions about the choices and mistakes a person makes across the years, as well as the endless search for joy and beauty * SUNDAY TIMES * A living testament to artistic invention . . . A vibrant read, peppered with both delight and moments of darkness * OBSERVER * ‘Neneh is cool, Neneh is wise, Neneh is a legend. Her memoir is a treasure. I loved it’ — ZADIE SMITH