Bad Blood (Sage book)

Bad Blood is a 2000 work blending collective biography and memoir by the Anglo-Welsh literary critic and academic Lorna Sage.

Set in post-war North Wales, it reflects on the dysfunctional generations of a family, its problems, and their effect on Sage. It won the 2001 Whitbread Book Biography of the Year seven days before Sage died of emphysema.

Reception
Upon release, Bad Blood was generally well-received among the British press.

James Fenton wrote in The New York Review of Books: "What makes the book remarkable is the individual story she has to tell, and which she delivers with such glee."

The Guardian ranked Bad Blood at number 89 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century in September 2019.

Release details

 * 2001, UK, Fourth Estate (ISBN 1-84115-043-6), Pub. date 10 July 2001, paperback (First edition)