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Another Planet
- A Teenager in Suburbia
- Narrated by: Tracey Thorn
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
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Publisher's Summary
In a 1970s commuter town, Tracey Thorn's teenage life was forged from what failed to happen. Her diaries were packed with entries about not buying things, not going to the disco, the school coach not arriving.
Before she was a best-selling musician and writer, Tracey Thorn was a typical teenager: bored and cynical, despairing of her aspirational parents. Her only comfort came from house parties, Meaningful Conversations and the female pop icons who hinted at a new kind of living.
Returning more than three decades later to Brookmans Park, scene of her childhood, Thorn takes us beyond the bus shelters and pub car parks, the utopian cul-de-sacs, the train to Potters Bar and the weekly discos, to the parents who wanted so much for their children, the children who wanted none of it. With her trademark wit and insight, Thorn reconsiders the Green Belt postwar dream so many artists have mocked and so many artists have come from.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-10-2021
Beautifully observed
All the way over here in the Australian suburbs this book resonated so deeply for me. Great depth of understanding about growing up in the 70’s, our relationships with family, feminism, culture, ourselves, and our mothers. Loved it.
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