Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me from Success: Rough Trade Book of the Year

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But Lush’s poppiest song, 1996’s Ladykillers – a scathing put-down of narcissistic lotharios – remains a banger. Lush were a great 90s band and the records they created have stood the test of time and still sound as good today as they ever had.

Following their bitter divorce, she had to split the time between her father, sports journalist of Hungarian descent Ivan Berenyi, and mother, Japanese actress and producer Yasuko Nagazumi. My dad for all his lunacy was actually a very good friend”, says Berenyi, explaining her attitude to friendship.As well as the unparalleled joy of keeping the publication alive, you'll receive benefits including exclusive editorial, podcasts, and specially-commissioned music by some of our favourite artists.

Frequent relocation, parental neglect and the dark presence of her abusive Nazi grandmother resulted in crippling shyness, mental health problems and a vulnerability to exploitation. The Britpop years, and the lad culture that grew around it, are brilliantly eviscerated in a five-page rant in which Liam Gallagher and former Loaded editor James Brown, among others, don’t exactly emerge covered in glory. Berenyi recognises her difficult childhood as leading to neediness that bled into her future relationships and, in part, Fingers Crossed has a touch of therapy about it.A ‘C’ word that sounds offensive in my male inner monologue sounds less so delivered in context by Miki. The book is searingly honest, perhaps overly so, with Berenyi's keenness to admit to her own faults being refreshing (a few bad episodes and dubious relationship choices appear to be Berenyi's own fault, so it's a relief which she readily admits as much) but also going a bit overboard.