Atypical Girl : Punk Rock, Liverpool, and Trying to be Normal

It’s 1977, and punk rock has just hit Liverpool. The legendary Eric's club is home to the city's rebels, posers and misfits.It’s a place of attitude, adventure and new possibilities, and it changes lives.Some become pop stars; Penny Kiley becomes a music journalist. The story traces Penny's relationship with the music scene from the turbulent political 1980s into the changing culture of the 21st century.Throughout these years, she never stops being a misfit, and the question remains: how do you navigate normal life when punk is dead and you don't know you're autistic?Atypical Girl begins as a coming-of-age story and ends as a midlife reinvention.What unites them is a search for identity and the role that music plays in all our lives. *Featuring encounters with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Teardrop Explodes, Paul McCartney, The Cramps, Jonathan Richman, Tracey Thorn and more.