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Bad Blood: A Memoir | Lorna Sage
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Bestselling author Lorna Sage delivers the tragicomic memoirof her escape from a claustrophobic childhood in post-WWII Britainand thestory of the weddings and relationships that defined three generations of herfamilyin Bad Blood, an internationalbestseller and the winner of the coveted Whitbread Biography Award. Readers ofbooks like Angelas Ashes and The Liars Club as well as fans ofSages own lucid and penetrating writing will be captivated by the book thatthe New York Times Book Review saidfills us with wonder and gratitude. . . . Few literary critics have everwritten anything so memorable.
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Bookbuyingaddict
Bad Blood: A Memoir | Lorna Sage
Mehso-so

Started really well and strong and very reminiscent for those of us growing up in the British countryside anytime in 50s,60s and 70s but half way in my interest waned , read for my village bookclub and most of the group gave up , only a few made it to the end . A ground breaking memoir ? Not really but interesting in parts and well written just extremely sad that such a brilliant lady should die so young

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Bookbuyingaddict
Bad Blood: A Memoir | Lorna Sage

A village bookclub choice , just starting it but the low pick no‘s aren‘t good 😣

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Mitch
Bad Blood | Lorna Sage
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Definitely won‘t get this read in time for next weeks author event to celebrate the books 20th anniversary - but looking forward to spending time with this memoir of brave and strong women in rural Wales. #bookmail #nfn2020

Soubhiville What a great cover! Im going to look in to this one! 4y
Caroline2 Sounds interesting! Stacked 😉 4y
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andrew61 I've copied a link to a programme on radio 4 i heard which led me to read this. It's an interesting listen. 4y
Mitch @andrew61 thank you so much 👍🏼 4y
rsteve388 This sounds interesting. I hope you enjoy it. 4y
kspenmoll Sounds great. Thanks for posting about this book. Love this genre. 4y
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Mitch
Bad Blood: A Memoir | Lorna Sage
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This is billed as one of the most groundbreaking memoirs of all time. I‘ve not read it and I‘m pretty new to memoirs - so seems like a good place to start. And the authors doing a live event (free) next week too!

#nfn2020

Heideschrampf Thanks for the recommendation, I love me a good empowerment menoir! 4y
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andrew61
Bad Blood: A Memoir | Lorna Sage
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#MayLovesClassics #Memoir
This is a brilliant memoir of a young girl/woman who grows up in postwar Shropshire in a bizarre family to achieve a degree after a teenage pregnancy and became an astonishing literary critic.

Bambolina_81 Stacked! 7y
batsy And friend to Angela Carter! I need to read this. 7y
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andrew61
Bad Blood: A Memoir | Lorna Sage
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#junetunz #smellsliketeenspirit
I thought id go for 2 bks on my shelf that apply. Catcher in the rye is probably too obvious but ive read it twice, once around when i was a teen and i thought wow, but 20 yrs later felt less amazing.
The lorna sage is a brilliantly written memoir of a girl growing up in Shropshire in 40s/50s much as a teenager and she is suitably rebellious. A highly recommended read.

Cinfhen That's often the case... a book that charmed you as a tween/teen doesn't live up to the memory when you read it again as an adult ☹️ 8y
andrew61 @Cinfhen that's probably why i don't reread very much. 8y
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