Everything But the Girl singer and memoirist Tracey Thorn has reviewed her relationship with her parents, declaring "there is regret there, especially about my relationship with my mum."
Her new book, Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia candidly explores her London childhood and youth.
"We’d been very, very close when I was young and then became so distant when I was a teenager, " she tells today's Observer, recalling her relationship with her mother. "And it never completely healed and we ended up being on different sides of every argument and every conversation.
"But I’d written in a song: We’re as unalike as frost and fire – implying that we were complete opposites. And I thought: 'You know what, I want to put on the record that I don’t really believe that.' "
Her daughters are no longer teenagers and the musician contrasts their expectations with hers, 30 years ago.
"No one really expected very much of me and my mates: we went to school and people suggested we learned to type, because that’s probably what we’d end up doing.
"When I got myself to university – and was the first one in my family to do so – my parents were proud of me but on the other hand they just thought: ' Well, it’s useful that you’ve learned to type as well. Because maybe you’ll end up being a secretary and that’s all just on the way to getting married anyway.' My girls would have considered that quite shocking."
