The Stirrings av Catherine Taylor

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<p><b>''Part poignant memoir of time and place. Part record of the violence, and indifference, against which most girls grow up. <i>The Stirrings</i> is a pleasure and a shock'' Eimear McBride</b><br><b><br>''A superb, moving and disturbing memoir - haunting and unforgettable'' Jonathan Coe<br><br></b>This is a story about one young woman coming of age, and about the place and time that shaped her: the North of England in the 1970s and 80s.<br><br>About the scorching summer of 1976 - the last Catherine Taylor would spend with both her parents in their home in Sheffield.<br><br>About the Yorkshire Ripper, the serial killer whose haunting presence in Catherine''s childhood was matched only by the aching absence of her own father.<br><br>About a country thrown into disarray by the nuclear threat and the Miners'' Strike, just as Catherine''s adolescent body was invaded by a debilitating illness.<br><br>About 1989''s ''Second Summer of Love'', a time of sexual awakening for Catherine, and t