{"product_id":"bad-blood-a-memoir-as-seen-on-bbc-between-the-covers","title":"Bad Blood: A Memoir: As seen on BBC Between the Covers","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom a childhood of gothic proportions in a vicarage on the Welsh borders, through adolescence, leaving herself teetering on the brink of the 1960's, Lorna Sage vividly and wittily brings to life a vanished time and place and illuminates the lives of three generations of women.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eLorna Sage's memoir of childhood and adolescence is a brilliantly written bravura piece of work, which vividly and wickedly brings to life her eccentric family and somewhat bizarre upbringing in the small town of Hanmer, on the border between Wales and Shropshire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe period as well as the place is evoked with crystal clarity: 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 the community was shocked by Lorna's pregnancy at 16, an event which her grandmother blamed on 'the fiendish invention of sex'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBad Blood is often extremely funny, and is at the same time a deeply intelligent insight by a unique literary stylist into the effect on three generations of women of their environment and their relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Unknown Binding\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 281\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fourth Estate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781841150437\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fourth Estate","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £1.50","offer_id":47917503021233,"sku":"SB-1841150436-C3","price":1.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Poor Condition — £1.00","offer_id":47917503054001,"sku":"SB-1841150436-C4","price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1841150436.jpg?v=1789441808","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/bad-blood-a-memoir-as-seen-on-bbc-between-the-covers","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}