Bad blood
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Word Count
70,250 words, Guess
Page Count
281 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebadblood0000_unse
- ISBN-101841150428
- ISBN-139781841150420
- Goodreads2059241
- LibraryThing17775
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- Library of Congress Control Number2001326073
- OCLC Control Number44562054
- Better World Books9781841150420
- Open LibraryOL3990320M
Classifications
- DDC942.9/39
- LCCCT848.S24 A3 2000b
- LCCPN75.S24 Z3 2000
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- LCCCT848.S24A3 2000
Description
"Lorna Sage's adventure in autobiography is an anatomy of three marriages that brings to life her girlhood in postwar provincial Britain. Her early childhood was dominated by her brilliant, bitter grandfather, a drinker, a womanizer, a vicar, exiled to a remote village on the Welsh border. His wife loathed him, lived on memories, and shook her fist at any parishioner bold enough to call at the house. From the vicarage Lorna watched the fading away of the old world and the slow dissolve of her grandparents' disastrous union.". "Then her father returns from the army and she moves with her parents and baby brother into a newly built house. Living with her parents, she quickly learns that the world is full of secrets and myths that mark her family - her mother's thwarted dreams, her father's addiction to work, and the mysterious emotional economy of their proper marriage. Longing to leave, Lorna vows she will never marry or have children, but before long she finds herself having grown up far too fast."--BOOK JACKET.
Description
The author's memoir of childhood and adolescence brings to life her eccentric family and somewhat bizarre upbringing in the small town of Hanmer, on the border between Wales and Shropshire. A Whitbread prize-winner, the book captures moments in time with great lucidity and poignancy.
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