Bad Blood by Lorna Sage

Bad Blood by Lorna Sage

One of the most critically acclaimed memoirs ever written. One of the ten books novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography that make up our Matchbook Classics series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist.

‘Bad Blood is pretty much in a class of its own… It is a measure of her achievement that she can turn the peculiarities of her own past – and they are peculiar – into a narrative that speaks for the whole of post-war Britian… This is not just an exquisite personal memoir, it is a vital piece of our collective past’
Daily Telegraph

‘A wonderful book. Women need this kind of book but perhaps men need it more, to give the sort of understanding which we still lack of how girls actually grow up.’
Margaret Forster

'[a] rich, justly acclaimed autobiography … this almost perfect memoir is a tribute to imperfection' Independent

'an almost unbearably eloquent memoir … 'Bad Blood' is also a tale of shared consciousness, and although the lives Sage describes clash with and limit her own, there is much that is redemptive here, and even elegiac' Frances Wilson, Guardian

'This could have been the saddest book you have ever read, but because of Lorna Sage's relish in the details, her exuberant celebration of the vitality of this clever, surviving girl, it is as enjoyable a book as I remember reading.' Doris Lessing

Lorna Sage was a professor of English at the University of East Anglia. Her previous books include Women in the House of Fiction, The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English, and a short monograph on Angela Carter. Lorna Sage died in Januray 2001

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ISBN 13	9780008329679
ISBN 10	0008329672
Title	Bad Blood
Author	Lorna Sage
Series	4th Estate Matchbook Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2019-04-04
Number of pages	288
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.