Audio - Autobiography 2001
New Audio - Autobiography Titles
2001
Lorna Sage
Bad Blood
Published April 2001 by HarperCollins Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 0-00-712020-6
Read by Jenny Agutter
Winner of the Whitbread Biography 2000
The bad blood had missed a generation. You’re just like your grandfather, my mother said.
Blood trickles down through every generation, seeps into every marriage. Lorna Sage’s long-awaited adventure in autobiography is a scaring anatomy of three marriages. Her early childhood was dominated be her brilliant, bitter grandfather, a boozer, a womaniser, a vicar exiled to a remote village in the Welsh borders. His wife loathed him, lived on memories and shook her fist at any parishioner hold enough to call at the house. From the vicarage Lorna watched the fading away of the old world and the slow dissolve of her grand-parents’ disastrous union.
Then father returns from the army, grandfather dies, and she moves with her parents and baby brother into a newly-built council house. The open-plan future is a place of rural dereliction. Living with her real parents she quickly learns that the post-war world is full of secrets and lies that mark her family. Longing to leave, Lorna vows she will never marry or have children. But she groves up so fast that she finds herself pregnant without noticing she has lost her virginity.
In one of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, Bad Blood brings alive in vivid detail a time - the 40s and the 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.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs
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