Bad Blood

Biographies & Memoirs

Sage, Lorna

Historical

Bad Blood winner of the Whitehead AWARD for Biography

Arts & Literature

Fourth Estate

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. 
Lorna sage’s outstanding childhood and adolescence brings to life her eccentric family and bizarre upbringing in rural Wales.
The period is evoked through a wickedly funny and deeply intelligent account: 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 Lorna’s pregnancy at 16 outraged those around her, an event her grandmother blamed on ‘the fiendish invention of sex’.
Bad Blood vividly and wittily explores a vanished time and place, and illuminate the lives of three generations of women.

Bad Blood (4th Estate Matchbook Classics)

Blood trickles down through every generation, seeps into every marriage. An international bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Biography Award, Bad Blood is a tragicomic memoir of one woman's escape from a claustrophobic childhood in post-World War II Britain and the story of three generations of the author's family and its marriages. In one of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, Bad Blood brings alive in vivid detail a time - the '40s and '50s - not so distant from us but now disappeared. As a portrait of a family and a young girl's place in it, it is unsurpassed.

Bad Blood: A Memoir

Harper-perennial

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.”

William Morrow

Twenty-one stories depict the dangers and complexities of modern life and the conflict between men and women

The Garden Party and Other Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Literature & Fiction

MANSFIELD, KATHERINE

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin Group USA

This novel, which has been hailed as a landmark in twentieth-century American literature, is the story of two staid but very different women going to pieces as they pursue their own eccentric paths to freedom, and the story follows their decline into debauchery. Christina Goering, a wealthy spinster in pursuit of sainthood ends up as a high-class call-girl, and Frieda Copperfield, abandons her dull husband for the love of a prostitute while travelling in Central America. The book is compelling and thought-provoking, and Bowles's original prose style makes it an experience to read.

Two Serious Ladies (Penguin Modern Classics)

BOWLES, Jane

Contemporary

Penguin Classics

The novel was once upon a time the genre women felt at home in. This wide- ranging and detailed study of contemporary novelists explores the forms of nostalgia (shared by many feminist critics) for a 'woman's novel'; and the subtle or savage strategies which have turned the house of fiction upside down. The result is a critique of the nature of narrative now; and a celebration of the energies that are undoing our definitions of women's work.

Women in the House of Fiction: Post-War Women Novelists

History & Criticism

Red Globe Press

Doris Lessing (Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction)

Literary

Routledge

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Bad Blood

Bad Blood

Bad Blood (4th Estate Matchbook Classics)

Bad Blood: A Memoir

Bad Blood: A Memoir

Bad Blood: A Memoir

The Garden Party and Other Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Two Serious Ladies (Penguin Modern Classics)

Women in the House of Fiction: Post-War Women Novelists

Doris Lessing (Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction)