Liona Boyd - Autobiography
In My Own Key - My Life in Love and Music

Hard Cover, 360 pages, 24 pages of color and b&w photos.

-autographed by Liona Boyd, at no extra cost-

"Exotic venues, sold-out concerts, and the companionship of the world's most powerful people have given Liona Boyd a lifestyle few will ever experience.

The internationally acclaimed classical guitarist has crossed numerous boundries, both musically and romantically. Whether working with such classical greats as Alexandre Lagoya or with such folk legends as Gordon Lightfoot she has always made music - and lived her life - in her own key.

In this colorful memoir she serves up a rich and fascinating mix: childhood with her progressive parents in England, Canada and Mexico; intense and exacting music studies in Toronto and Europe; down-and-out years in London and Paris; drug experimentation in a Mexican artists colony; and whirlwind trips around the globe to eminent concert stages.

And who can forget her friendship with Canada's prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau? Here, for the first time, Liona tells the full story behind that relationship.

It all makes for a rousing, feisty, passionate tale, as compelling and entrancing as the music of her Ramirez guitar."

Don Bastian, Stoddart Publishing

" Liona Boyd casts a charming spell in this disarmingly innocent and honest account of her life as a true creative and romantic adventurer"
PAMELA WALLIN

"The golden girl of the guitar writes with unusual candour and taste, even about her long-term love affair with Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau"
AMBASSADOR SELWA ROOSEVELT

"Liona Boyd's reputation in the music world as an extraordinary guitarist is well known. You only have to read this book to realize that she can write just as well"
CHARLTON HESTON

"In this sensitive account of her early days and the vigoruos artistic years, Liona Boyd proves that dreams can become reality. In her book she gives us the candid details of her trip through the maze"
GORDON LIGHTFOOT

"Her music, talent and courage have woven a magic carpet that has floated through some of the most interesting corridors of our century"
ROBERT BATEMAN

"Congratulations to Liona Boyd for here spirited writing and beautiful music"
ISABEL ALLENDE

"A diverting, absorbing story of a brilliant artistic and interesting romantic life"
CONRAD BLACK

"Liona's rarified gift is her extraordinary ability to convey the intangeable essence of love through the soulful and pure sound of the classical guitar; her breadth of human emotion is unmatched"
MAUREEN FORRESTER