ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
Female drummer on an unusual beat
The Girl in the Back: A Female Drummer’s Life with Bowie, Blondie and the ’70s Rock Scene
by Laura Davis-Chanin
(Backbeat Books, £19.99)
“THIS is not the book you think it is,” warns Laura Davis-Chanin at the start of The Girl in the Back.
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