Bad Blood A Memoir - Match Box Classic

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 sages 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 Lornas mother, to the brink of the 1960s, where Lornas 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.