The Cure are one of the most respected and well-loved of rock?s survivors, traceable right back to punk?s fabled Bromley Contingent. In Between Days is the first book to make sense of a uniquely versatile band who are far more than the goth band, documenting their development from the new wave of 1979?s Boys Don?t Cry, the existential rock of Seventeen Seconds, the joyous pop of Wish, the dark beauty of Disintegration?right up to the majesty of Bloodflowers and 2004?s The Cure, consecutive twenty-first-century masterpieces.

In Between Days also studies Robert Smith?s brilliant interweaving of literary influences, from Mervyn Peake and Coleridge to Albert Camus and Jean Cocteau, to make a fascinating album-by-album, track-by-track study.