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From a childhood of gothic proportions in a vicarage on the welsh borders, through adolescence, leaving herself teeterin. Pdf an analysis of lorna sages autobiography bad blood. I never met lorna, but i did meet exhusband vic, as he was the internal examiner when i did my phd at the university of east anglia. Twelve twentieth century women writers, and was eager to read more of her work.
Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. An international bestseller and winner of the whitbread biography award, bad blood is a tragicomic memoir of one womans escape from a claustrophobic childhood in postworld war ii britain and the story of three generations of the authors family and its marriages. Always update books hourly, if not looking, search in the book search column. See all books authored by lorna sage, including bad blood, and peacock casebook, and more on thriftbooks. The bad blood of the title also comes into play as sage seems to have inherited her grandfathers amorous passions. Every one of our books is in stock in the uk ready for immediate delivery. From a childhood of gothic proportions in a vicarage on the welsh borders, through adolescence, leaving herself teetering on the brink of the 1960s, lorna sage vividly and wittily brings to life a vanished time and place and illuminates the lives of three generations of women. Her early childhood was dominated by her brilliant, bitter grandfather, a drinker, a womanizer, a vicar, exiled to a remote village on the welsh borders.
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