She chatted at length about her creative process – how she sang “through the decimal places of a mathematical constant” to concoct the song Pi, and such – but divulged nothing personal other than irritation that she was viewed by the public as “some kind of weirdo recluse”. This is the first time, in a very long time, that I've had a palpable feeling of sadness at finishing a non-fiction book. The book doesn’t shy away from the criticism the album received either, but Doyle softens the blow by suggesting momentum is just around the corner, a blue centre light being ignited as Bush moves steadily and shiva-like towards her bona fida masterpiece.

Comprehensively charting her career, from The Kick Inside (1978) to Director’s Cut (2011), Doyle captures a more multidimensional view of the artist, allowing glimpses into her personal life, including the earth-shattering loss of her mother in 1992 and her friendship with David Bowie. Kate Bush: the subject of murmured legend and one of the most distinctive musicians of the modern era. Also strangely missing are pictures: other than Kate’s pose on the dust jacket, there’s nothing in the text - no album covers, no video stills, no TV interviews, no live performances, no family snapshots and no candid pictures taken during Mr Doyle’s interview.

Until the artist puts her own pen to paper […] this is the closest we’ve ever come to understanding the enigmatic, uncompromising Bush on page. Anybody with the remotest interest in Kate Bush will find something to satisfy their curiosity in this absorbing read. Kate Bush w 50 odsłonach” Toma Doyle’a to portret artystki luźno nawiązujący do wywiadu autora, który przeprowadził z bohaterką w 2005 roku. Till this day, I still think nothing and nobody truly compares to her talent, singularity, and artistic vision. Doyle looks at the recording, the times between albums when songs were worked on, new technology tested, videos thought of, and other collaborations.

However, I personally always hated Pamela Stephenson's parody of Bush on Not The Nine O'Clock News; I found it cruel and spiteful. A mosaic biography featuring snapshots, stories, episodes, interviews and insights that will lift the curtain on the real Kate Bush.Utter hell at times,” Bush says in a chapter entitled ‘a sea of sky and honey’ peels back the layers of her studio work, revealing not so much a creative process as an endurance contest. In 2022, Bush achieved her greatest success through the turning in her direction of the corporate wheel – something she has been trying to avoid like an injured butterfly her whole career. This book is split up into 50 segments focused on songs or periods in her life that give you a really in-depth idea of what was going on or how the song came to be.