A story told with songs.

In 1972 a middle-class girl came to the University of Canterbury and found a world where academic study collided with social upheaval. She became a hippy, dabbled in the excesses of the 70s and emerged a changed woman.

Dark humour prevails as Naomi Ferguson relives the sights and sounds of her mother’s world in 1970s Christchurch with Songs My Mother Taught Me.