AUTHOR Tiffany Murray will talk about her unique childhood in and around Ross-on-Wye, Monmouth and Rockfield Studios.

My Family and Other Rock Stars is Tiff's remarkable, truly unique story of growing up in a rural idyll, of Cordon Bleu cookery and of a childhood where the chances of bumping into Freddie Mercury playing piano, or a group of Hell's Angels turning up to record for Lemmy, or even the hope of David Bowie appearing, were as normal as hopscotch and homework.

Tiffany will speak at St Mary’s Church in Ross on Thursday, May 15 at 7pm.

With numerous local connections – Fritz of Fritz Fryer 12, Brookend St was Tiff’s Stepdad - this event will appeal to music fans as well as those who also lived in Ross during the 1970s and 1980s.

Published last year in hardback, the book became a book of the year for the Times, the Sunday Times, the Independent, the Guardian and the Daily Mail.

The admission fee is £8 and the event takes place on paperback publication day and the paperback edition of the book will be on sale at the event, with £3 off. Tiffany will be signing copies after the talk.

Tickets for the event available from Rossiter Books, The Corn Exchange, Ross or by calling 01989 564464 or visiting rossiterbooks.co.uk.

The book has been described by Roddy Doyle as ‘Charming . . . heartbreaking, sometimes both funny and unsettling, and always – from start to end – very, very good’ It was the Daily Mail book of the week and described as being ‘scrumptious as the home-made mayonnaise, pumpkin soup and game pie coming out of Joan’s kitchen’.

Sarah Winman said it was ‘A love letter to a remarkable childhood’ while Rachel Joyce said: “You will fall in love with Tiff, her hilarious non-nonsense mother Joan, and a cast of hungry rock stars.”