Harper Perennial
Bad Blood : A Memoir
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Bad Blood
Author(s): Lorna Sage
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.”
Review(s):
“In Bad Blood, [Sage] has written a classic.”
“Magnificent. . . . A superb memoir of a daughter of the 1950s who got knocked up, but not knocked down.”
“Deeply affecting and beautifully written.”
“An award-winning memoir of courageous escape.”
“Extraordinary… Should stand out for its combination of powerful writing, wicked black humor and social history.”
“Shockingly frank, but also witty, passionate, and utterly lacking self-pity — and surprisingly uplifting.”
“Deserves special notice… The intensely personal story will resonate with more than just Anglophiles.”
“Deserves to become a classic.”
Whitbread Biography Award, Nobel Prize for Literature
ISBN: 9780062080240
Author(s): Lorna Sage
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.”
Review(s):
“In Bad Blood, [Sage] has written a classic.”
“Magnificent. . . . A superb memoir of a daughter of the 1950s who got knocked up, but not knocked down.”
“Deeply affecting and beautifully written.”
“An award-winning memoir of courageous escape.”
“Extraordinary… Should stand out for its combination of powerful writing, wicked black humor and social history.”
“Shockingly frank, but also witty, passionate, and utterly lacking self-pity — and surprisingly uplifting.”
“Deserves special notice… The intensely personal story will resonate with more than just Anglophiles.”
“Deserves to become a classic.”
Whitbread Biography Award, Nobel Prize for Literature
ISBN: 9780062080240