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Bad Blood

By: Lorna Sage
Narrated by: Jenny Agutter
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Summary

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.

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 revolutionised 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.

©2001 Lorna Sage (P)2011 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

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Slow read

Found this a bit depressing and hard to read but it does pick up and I enjoyed the last third of book .

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Takes a while to warm up

Bad Blood is a book that takes a while to get good, as there's a lot of context given in the first half of the story to explain the main part, however, the end makes it worth it due to the way the book makes you really understand what it must've been like. decent book!

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Such a shame it's abridged

I have listened to this twice, and will no doubt do so again at some point. It's beautifully written and beautifully read. I only wish it was not abridged.

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