She was professor of english literature and the university of east anglia. While her father was away fighting in world war ii, young lorna and her mother lived with her grandparents in a vicarage in hanmer, flintshire. In 2001, the same year sage died at 57, the book won the whitbread biography. Lorna sage s adventure in autobiography is a searing and funny anatomy of three marriages that brings to life her girlhood in postwar provincial britain.
Blood trickles down through every generation, seeps into every marriage. Rotting together for eternity, one flesh at the last after a lifetimes mutual loathing. Now the book is set to be turned into a film and local people are once more up in arms at the. Claudia sart ori 1 lorna sage bad blood an analysis of lorna sages autobiography bad blood in 2000 lorna sage, a famous english academic, published. Jan 11, 2001 an international bestseller and winner of the whitbread biography award, bad blood is a tragicomic memoir of one womans escape from a claustrophobic childhood in postworld war ii britain and the story of three generations of the authors family and its marriages.
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