Bob Marley is the unchallenged king of reggae and one of music's great iconic figures. Rita Marley was not just his wife and the mother of four of his children but his friend, life-long companion and soul mate.

They met in Trenchtown when he was nineteen and she was eighteen, and she was very much part of his musical career, selling his early recordings from their house in the days before Island Records signed up the Wailers, touring the world with him and recording as one of his back-up group, the I-Threes. She shared the hard times and the dangers - when Bob was wounded in a gunfight before the Peace Concert, Rita was shot in the head and left for dead.

Their marriage was not always easy but Rita was the woman Bob returned to no matter where music and other women might take him, the woman who held him in her arms when he died of cancer at the age of thirty-five. Today she sees herself as the guardian of his legacy. Full of new information, No Woman, No Cry is an insightful biography of Marley by someone who understands what it meant to grow up in poverty in Jamaica, to battle racism and prejudice. It is also a moving and inspiring story of a marriage that survived both poverty and the strains of celebrity.

It will surely become the definitive biographical account of the reggae guitarist-singer-songwriter who changed pop music and in the process became a leader to millions - the Times

The circumstances of Bob's death are recalled with raw emotion. But of equal interest is the account of their years of poverty, which Rita invests with a quiet dignity that eloquently shows why, even as a superstar, Marley was able to remain the authentic voice of the people - Uncut