'Bad Blood' is a 2000 work blending collective biography and memoir by the Anglo-Welsh literary critic and academic Lorna Sage. It was said that vinegar flowed through her pen. Set in post-war North Wales, it reflects on the dysfunctional generations of a family, its problems, and their effect on Sage.
Her triumph over ancestral doom and pursuit of an unusual career in the 1960s, made her a symbol for post-war women. 'We broke the rules and got away with it, for better and for worse, we're part of the shape of things to come,' she said.
'Perhaps ... it's a good idea to settle for a few loose ends, because even if everything in your life is connected to everything else, that way madness lies.' – The last sentence of Lorna Sage's memoir of her childhood.
'Bad Blood' won the Whitbread Biography Award in 2001, a week before Sage died at the age of 57.
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