One for the Money - Carol Clewlow

As a teenager she rebelled against her disapproving, tight-lipped father by scorning university to join a rock band. With farm-boy Kent, the beautiful, frowned-upon Richard, and wild Leon who went furthest – and deepest – into drugs, they all became legends. The wildly expensive country house, the theme parties, the priceless art and the excess of sex and champagne carried them away from the real world and into a fantasy where they had too much of everything – except happiness.

This is Joanie’s story: in it she takes a roller-coaster ride to fame, adulation and success beyond her wildest ambitions. But on the way down there is despair, addiction, even death; the possibility of a happy ending becomes more and more remote.