{"product_id":"motherwell-9781474611466","title":"Motherwell","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe No.3 Sunday Times bestselling 'masterpiece' (Andrew O'Hagan)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSearching, 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 -- Andrew O'Hagan * GUARDIAN *\u003cbr\u003eSharply intelligent and utterly unsentimental, MOTHERWELL is a fitting legacy left by a blazing talent * OBSERVER *\u003cbr\u003eRaw, compelling, wise and tender -- DOLLY ALDERTON\u003cbr\u003eMOTHERWELL is razor-sharp, fearless and wonderful -- ADAM KAY\u003cbr\u003eAn 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 *\u003cbr\u003eA fierce and tender reckoning: personal, political, and blazing with truth -- MELISSA HARRISON\u003cbr\u003eCrammed with wit and intelligence . . . a clever, meticulous and intricate work. Although heart-rending at times, it is also surprisingly funny . . . has a generosity of tone that means as you read it you experience sudden flashes from your own past: slights, plights, triumphs, mad asides * THE FINANCIAL TIMES *\u003cbr\u003eUtterly candid and staggeringly good, both as the history of a woman and the history of a place -- INDIA KNIGHT\u003cbr\u003eA poignant, beautiful and all-too-topical memoir. With the skill, delicacy and sharp wit her many fans know and love, Deborah Orr tells her tale of childhood: of class and mobility, of self-love and self-loathing, of dissatisfied mother and clever daughter, and of the dangerous, complex sacrifices which opportunity demands from a girl on the move in the late twentieth century. Are you a mother? Do\/did you have a mother? Read it -- LOUISA YOUNG\u003cbr\u003eIf you have or had a difficult mother this is the book for you. Difficult doesn't have to mean abusive. You can have a happy childhood with a mother who drives you mad -- LINDA GRANT\u003cbr\u003eFilled with observational brilliance and wit . . . beautiful. Brilliant . . . not just an intelligent and honest personal memoir, not just an examination of narcissism, interdependence and repression, but a conjuring of a time, a moment in British history, that may otherwise be lost entirely. It is also funny. As funny, it would seem from the obituaries, as the woman herself * DAILY TELEGRAPH *\u003cbr\u003eHonest, at times harsh, but also deeply tender and very funny - this is a beautifully written memoir. It's my generation so evoked many unwanted memories including the three-day-week, boiled to death veg and masturbating skinheads. A great read for 'Common People' like me -- KATHY BURKE\u003cbr\u003eMOTHERWELL is a story about a girl, a family, a time, a place. But so much more. Fearlessly Deborah Orr works out how she was formed as she unpicks everyday dysfunction. Full of glinting pain, brilliant one liners and utter clarity, the sliver of ice in her heart melts. Sheer humanity shines out. I was astonished -- SUZANNE MOORE\u003cbr\u003eDeborah's honest and fearless spirit shines throughout MOTHERWELL. Her many struggles are told with wit and candour, but above all there is so much love in this book -- COSEY FANNI TUTTI\u003cbr\u003eComplex and moving, this is an honest take on the close ties that can bind, hold us back and also set us free\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e * STYLIST - Best New Books of 2020 *\u003cbr\u003e[Orr's] masterpiece . . . the story of her family but also a social commentary of Britain . . . a fascinating look into the childhood of one of our most important journalists * EVENING STANDARD *\u003cbr\u003eIntense and moving * RED *\u003cbr\u003eA remarkable memoir, the candour of it . . . Having grown up working-class in Scotland, there are a lot of resonances * THE i NEWSPAPER *\u003cbr\u003eLove and understanding triumph over the difficult and painful memories. It is disconcertingly honest and self-revealing. You are unlikely to forget it * THE SCOTSMAN *\u003cbr\u003eA complex study of a family, childhood, and a town transformed * THE ARTS DESK *\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant . . . An excellent and timely slice of social reportage * METRO *\u003cbr\u003eA beautifully written portrait of a quintessential Seventies working-class childhood * NEW STATESMAN *\u003cbr\u003eBold, clear-eyed and often very funny * RADIO TIMES *\u003cbr\u003eA remarkable book . . . impassioned, angry, tender, pathetic, honest to a fault. MOTHERWELL is written at such a pitch of intensity you sometimes have to put it down just to get your breath back * MAIL ON SUNDAY *\u003cbr\u003eSearing, candid, magnificently perceptive and lingeringly tragic. A modern classic * DAILY MAIL *\u003cbr\u003eVivid, visceral, uncompromising, electrifying in its candour * i *\u003cbr\u003eRaw, beautiful and truly insightful * GOOD HOUSEKEEPING *\u003cbr\u003eCompletely amazing * STYLIST *\u003cbr\u003eMOTHERWELL is an unflinching memoir of one family and a lost world. It is also an extended essay on how not to mother well and the terrible legacy that can leave * DAILY EXPRESS *\u003cbr\u003eSharp, funny, warm and memorable * SUNDAY INDEPENDENT *\u003cbr\u003eDauntless, quietly devastating, but not without seams of happiness and magnificent wit * THE HERALD (Glasgow) *","brand":"Orion Publishing Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739607544151,"sku":"9781474611466","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474611466.jpg?v=1720052724","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/motherwell-9781474611466","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}