This is the full story of the legendary pop icon Dusty Springfield. It tells her life story from a period of wilderness during the 1970s and 1980s to chart-topping success in the 1990s and her death from cancer. It also reveals a background that was schizophrenically at odds. Born an Irish catholic, Springfield moved into the rock world, and into a realization of her sexuality. As well as charting her gay relationships, this book also looks candidly at the period of her greatest self-destruction while living in Los Angeles in the 1980s.