It's 1979 and Linda Tyler is an assistant cook, engaged to a bank clerk in a sleepy town called Withingdean, when she answers an ad in a music paper. Suddenly, she gets the job that everyone else in England wants. Within weeks, her life changes beyond recognition as she starts work on NWW, a Punk and New Wave magazine. Along the way though, she will also discover who and what she loves most - and make the most important decision of her life.

If you have an altar set up for Joe Strummer in your living room, if you can remember what it felt like to order a T-shirt from the back pages of NME, or even if you just wish you were the right age to be in the front row of a Jam concert in 1979, this is the book for you. Set in the fictional town of Withingdean, near Brighton, in the year of Mrs Thatcher's election victory, this is the story of a girl who left a Chinese restaurant and a long-time fiancee to pursue Knickerbocker Glory with Clare Grogan instead - and freedom.