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Lorna Sage

Bad Blood

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.”
334 printed pages
Original publication
2009
Publication year
2009
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  • Анна Андрееваshared an impression3 years ago
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    Житейская мудрость , которая всем нужна. Это был интересный опыт для меня, автобиографичность придаёт книге большую значимость.

Quotes

  • Анна Андрееваhas quoted3 years ago
    Marj was my schoolgirl mother’s brand-new best friend. Valma, my mother, had just turned sixteen that spring of 1934, and Marj was a year or at most two years older. She’d left school and was at a loose end, waiting for a hospital place to train as a nurse. She spent a lot of time at the vicarage, almost lived there, because she had in a sense no home.
  • Анна Андрееваhas quoted3 years ago
    Grandma had blackmailed Grandpa for years, by threatening to show his private diary to the Bishop unless he handed over part of his stipend every quarter?
  • Анна Андрееваhas quoted3 years ago
    . I couldn’t resist the

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