Bad Blood - Softcover

Sage, Lorna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060938080 ISBN 13: 9780060938086

Publisher: Perennial, 2003

Synopsis

The late author and renowned literary critic describes her life in post-World War II Britain in a compelling memoir of family life, marriage, and personal history. Winner of the 2000 Whitbread Biography Award. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

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Review:

‘“Bad Blood” is pretty much in a class of its own...It is a measure of her achievement that she can turn the peculiarities of her own past – and they are peculiar – into a narrative that speaks for the whole of post-war Britian ... This is not just an exquisite personal memoir, it is a vital piece of our collective past.’ Daily Telegraph

‘A wonderful book. Women need this kind of book but perhaps men need it more, to give the sort of understanding which we still lack of how girls actually grow up.’ Margaret Forster

‘This could have been the saddest book you have ever read, but because of Lorna Sage’s relish in the details, her exuberant celebration of the vitality of this clever, surviving girl, it is as enjoyable a book as I remember reading.’ Doris Lessing

From the Back Cover:

Blood trickles down through every generation, seeps into every marriage. An international bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Biography Award, Bad Blood is a tragicomic memoir of one woman's escape from a claustrophobic childhood in post-World War II Britain and the story of three generations of the author's family and its marriages.

In one of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, Bad Blood brings alive in vivid detail a time -- the '40s and '50s -- not so distant from us but now disappeared. As a portrait of a family and a young girl's place in it, it is unsurpassed.

About this edition

• Publisher: Perennial
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060938080
• ISBN 13: 9780060938086
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288