description: This eBook contains "Past Imperfect" an essay by Lorna Sage about her family and "Bad Blood. Lorna Sage's memoir of childhood and adolescence is a brilliantly written bravura piece of work, which vividly and wickedly brings to life her eccentric family and somewhat bizarre upbringing in the small town of Hanmer, on the border between Wales and Shropshire. The period as well as the place is evoked with crystal clarity: from the 1940s, dominated for Lorna by her dissolute but charismatic vicar grandfather, through the 1950s, where the invention of fish fingers revolutionized the lives of housewives like Lorna's mother, to the brink of the 1960s, where the community was shocked by Lorna's pregnancy at 16, an event which her grandmother blamed on 'the fiendish invention of sex'. "Bad Blood is often extremely funny, and is at the same time a deeply intelligent insight by a unique literary stylist into the effect on three generations of women of their environment and their relationships."An award-winning memoir of courageous escape."       "HARPER'S BAZAAR"Deeply affecting and beautifully written."       "PEOPLE"Magnificent... Compeling... A superb memoir of a daughter of the 1950s who got knocked up, but not knocked down."       MAUREEN CORRIGAN, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO'S "FRESH AIR"In "Bad Blood," Sage] has written a classic."       "NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
language: English
title: Bad Blood
titlecomplete: Bad Blood
genres: British Literature, Autobiography, History, Religion, Childrens, Biography Memoir, Family, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1896
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Biography, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography
publisher: P/B