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I arranged to meet Viv outside Violet, a small bakery in Hackney, on a swelteringly hot day in early July this year. We had agreed to discuss her book and the impact it has had since it was first published in Her return to music in the s, and the release of her solo album The Vermillion Border , changed her mind. Punk books do sell and, given the precarious nature of publishing, Faber could perhaps be forgiven for wanting an easy, rather than complex, book to sell.

The publishers were not entirely convinced that this approach would work.

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So, that was a risk. I had a girl gang at school. We were like drippy, slightly hippy types, and listened to music, so I suppose I feel very attached to that age really, and I feel very protective. You know, Ari [Up, Slits singer] was very young — she was [only] 15 in the band. The account of the year-old Viv standing naked on newspapers in the kitchen while her mother picked pubic lice off her is one example of such frankness.

In keeping with this radical approach, and the teenage readership hoped for, the book was written in the present tense.