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Bad Blood: A Memoir
By Lorna Sage
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Bestselling author Lorna Sage delivers the tragicomic memoirof her escape from a claustrophobic childhood in post-WWII Britain—and thestory of the weddings and relationships that defined three generations of herfamily—in Bad Blood, an internationalbestseller and the winner of the coveted Whitbread Biography Award. Readers ofbooks like Angela’s Ashes and The Liar’s Club as well as fans ofSage’s own lucid and penetrating writing will be captivated by the book thatthe New York Times Book Review said“fills us with wonder and gratitude. . . . Few literary critics have everwritten anything so memorable.”
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Lorna Sage
Lorna Sage’s books include ‘Women in the House of Fiction’ (1992), ‘The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English’ (1999), a short monograph on Angela Carter, and ‘Bad Blood’, which won the 2000 Whitbread Biography Award and became a number one bestseller. She died in January 2001.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Some of the print reviews call this memoir tenderly written, an exuberant celebration, generous. I'm going to say no to all of that. For the most part the author is a sullen observer of miserable people. One reviewer said it described a time in English villages that England continues to run from - that comes closest to my perception. However there are some pertinent observations on women and their lives and the fact that intelligence, education, self determination and books can pull them out of drudgery and self destruction.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Really enjoyed this, at time it kind of reminded me of Cider With Rosie.Liked the inclusion of the photographs (one a of Lorna and her brother reminded me of one of me and my brother).Would have liked it to go on to talk more about her life at university and how they lived there.Really didn't expect it to become a teen pregnancy story.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Terrific memoir about growing up in the fifties and sixties. The story of the vicarage childhood and school days of a bookish girl who didn't fit in. Moving and ultimately uplifting.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I generally love memoirs, but I had trouble getting too involved in this one. The author, Lorna Sage, grows up in a "bad" family in Britain and becomes a teenage mother. I didn't find Sage's story particularly interesting, particularly sad, or particularly funny.
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