Bad Blood

by Lorna Sage

Ebook, 2001

Status

Available

Call number

942.939

Genres

Publication

Fourth Estate (2001), Edition: OVERWEIGHT

Description

From a childhood of gothic proportions in a vicarage on the Welsh borders, through her adolescence, leaving herself teetering on the brink of the 1960s, Lorna Sage brings to life a vanished time and place, and illuminates the lives of three generations of women.

User reviews

LibraryThing member neilchristie

Terrific memoir about growing up in the fifties and sixties. The story of the vicarage childhood and school days of a bookish girl who didn't fit in. Moving and ultimately uplifting.

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LibraryThing member ClicksClan

Really enjoyed this, at time it kind of reminded me of Cider With Rosie.

Liked the inclusion of the photographs (one a of Lorna and her brother reminded me of one of me and my brother).

Would have liked it to go on to talk more about her life at university and how they lived there.

Really didn't

expect it to become a teen pregnancy story.

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LibraryThing member Citizenjoyce

Some of the print reviews call this memoir tenderly written, an exuberant celebration, generous. I'm going to say no to all of that. For the most part the author is a sullen observer of miserable people. One reviewer said it described a time in English villages that England continues to run from -

that comes closest to my perception. However there are some pertinent observations on women and their lives and the fact that intelligence, education, self determination and books can pull them out of drudgery and self destruction.

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LibraryThing member apartmentcarpet

I generally love memoirs, but I had trouble getting too involved in this one. The author, Lorna Sage, grows up in a "bad" family in Britain and becomes a teenage mother. I didn't find Sage's story particularly interesting, particularly sad, or particularly funny.

LibraryThing member icemoosey

There didn't seem to be much point to it.

LibraryThing member KayHarker

Whitchurch will never be the same.....
I did enjoy this until towards the end when I felt the unease of a contemporary and became ultra critical. Maybe my fault rather than the writers'. I hope she writes a novel.

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