| Bad Blood | |
| Author: | Lorna Sage |
| Country: | Wales |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Memoir |
| Publisher: | Fourth Estate |
| Release Date: | 2000 |
| Media Type: | Print (Paperback & Hardback) & AudioBook (Cassette) |
| Pages: | 288 pp (first edition, paperback) |
| Isbn: | 1-84115-043-6 |
| Isbn Note: | (first edition, paperback) |
| Oclc: | 46512313 |
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.[1]
Upon release, Bad Blood was generally well-received among the British press.[2] On Bookmarks Magazine, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (4.0 out of 5) based on critic reviews with the critical summary stating, "It is a memoir that, as the Library Journal writes, “stands up to the very best."[3]
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."[4]
The Guardian ranked Bad Blood at number 89 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century in September 2019.[5]