Polly Jean Harvey has won worldwide recognition for her raw, b while remaining one of rock"s most enigmatic and private figures. Starting out as P J Harvey, the first female artist to win the prestigious Mercury Music Prize has spent more than a decade creating a series of scorching albums and collaborating with musicians including Nick Cave, Radio Tricky, Marianne Faithfull and Queens Of The Stone Age. This groundbreaking biography traces Harvey"s personal and artistic development from her childhood in a small Dorset village, through her recordings with Too Pure and Island, right up to her headlining World Tour of 2004.