Motherwell by Deborah Orr - ISBN: 9781474611466
Paperback
Inheritance, identity, and redemption in a sharp, humorous, and candid memoir.

Motherwell

The moving memoir of growing up in 60s and 70s working class Scotland

$33.05

  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    12 January 2021

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Summary

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE

‘A fitting legacy left by a blazing talent’ Observer ‘A masterpiece’ Andrew O’Hagan, Guardian ‘Completely amazing’ Lucy Mangan, Stylist ‘A modern classic’ Daily Mail ‘Raw, compelling, wise and tender’ Dolly Alderton ‘Outstanding’ Jenny Colgan, Spectat…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781474611466
ISBN-10:147461146X
Author:Deborah Orr
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:12 January 2021
Weight:270g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 26mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Searching, truthful, shocking (and timely) … with a reporter’s skill, she shows the interior life of her people. In the present climate, this book should be given out on the NHS … a masterpiece - GUARDIAN

Sharply intelligent and utterly unsentimental, MOTHERWELL is a fitting legacy left by a blazing talent - OBSERVER

Raw, compelling, wise and tender

An outstanding memoir … The writing is powerful and muscular; the bitterness raw and furious … as a legacy, this book will stand at least as long as Ravenscraig - SPECTATOR

About The Author

Deborah Orr

DEBORAH ORR was an award-winning journalist, whose work regularly appeared in the Guardian, the Independent, the Sunday Times and in many magazines including Vogue, Grazia and Marie Claire. She was a contributing editor to Another Magazine and was the first female editor of the Guardian’s Weekend Magazine at the age of thirty. Deborah was a co-creator of ‘Enquirer’, a play commissioned by the National Theatre of Scotland, performed in London, Glasgow and Belfast, broadcast by Radio 4 and shortlisted for new play of the year in the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland.

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