Here are answers to some things people have asked me about it.
What’s your book about?
The very short answer is: ‘Punk rock, Liverpool and trying to be normal’. That’s the book’s subtitle.
The slightly longer answer is that it’s a memoir starting in 1976 and going up to the 21st century. It’s about coming of age during punk and how that influenced the rest of my life – including my career as a music journalist. A lot of it is about the Liverpool punk scene around Eric’s club and the post-punk scene that followed. There’s also a subplot about growing up with undiagnosed autism, hence the title (which is, of course, a play on Typical Girls by the Slits).
