Her first two albums charted her rise from obscurity and her struggle to find love with the man who would become her husband.Now Amy Winehouse's posthumous third album will give a blow-by-blow account of the tumultuous years that followed, telling of the marriage and divorce from drug addict Blake Fielder-Civil.
It maps her decline into alcohol and drug addiction that contributed to her death last Saturday.
A spokesman for Amy's family said that throughout last year she had been working on a follow-up to her last release, 2006's critically acclaimed Back To Black.
'Amy always had a notebook on her and would write down lyrics and ideas,' he said. 'People who have heard the new songs say that they are very, very good and that they are as autobiographical as ever.
'The period after 2006 was when Amy went through the most emotional upheaval, with Blake going to prison and then their divorce.'
Fielder-Civil, 33, was jailed for seven months in 2008 after an attack on a pub landlord. The two-year marriage ended in divorce in 2009.
It maps her decline into alcohol and drug addiction that contributed to her death last Saturday.
Lovers: Blake Fielder-Civil with Amy Winehouse pictured in 2007
'Amy always had a notebook on her and would write down lyrics and ideas,' he said. 'People who have heard the new songs say that they are very, very good and that they are as autobiographical as ever.
'The period after 2006 was when Amy went through the most emotional upheaval, with Blake going to prison and then their divorce.'
Fielder-Civil, 33, was jailed for seven months in 2008 after an attack on a pub landlord. The two-year marriage ended in divorce in 2009.
'In loving memory': A bottle of Vodka is left among the tributes outside the home of Amy Winehouse after the singer died yesterday of a suspected drug overdose
'Your in our hearts': Tributes tied to the fence near Winehouse's Camden home
