Lorna Sage was a professor of English at the University of East Anglia. Her previous books include Women in the House of Fiction, The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English, and a short monograph on Angela Carter. Lorna Sage died in Januray 2001
‘Bad Blood is pretty much in a class of its own… It is a measure of
her achievement that she can turn the peculiarities of her own past
– and they are peculiar – into a narrative that speaks for the
whole of post-war Britian… This is not just an exquisite personal
memoir, it is a vital piece of our collective past.’
Daily Telegraph ‘A wonderful book. Women need this kind of book but
perhaps men need it more, to give the sort of understanding which
we still lack of how girls actually grow up.’
Margaret Forster '[a] rich, justly acclaimed autobiography … this
almost perfect memoir is a tribute to imperfection' Independent 'an
almost unbearably eloquent memoir … 'Bad Blood' is also a tale of
shared consciousness, and although the lives Sage describes clash
with and limit her own, there is much that is redemptive here, and
even elegiac' Frances Wilson, Guardian 'This could have been the
saddest book you have ever read, but because of Lorna Sage's relish
in the details, her exuberant celebration of the vitality of this
clever, surviving girl, it is as enjoyable a book as I remember
reading.' Doris Lessing
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