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Base Notes: Scenes from a Northern Girlhood

Penned By Adelle Stripe
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Base Notes: Scenes from a Northern Girlhood

Penned By Adelle Stripe
4.85 91,720 Ratings
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A bedroom dreamer with a headful of Warhol, Adelle Stripe's formative years were ones of daytime drinking and religious fervour, frustrated mothers and reckless daughters, predacious strangers and punk rock energy. Snapshots of wild abandon and dead-end jobs pepper this evocative tale of metamorphosis alongside a wry clear-eyed account of maternal conflict, compassion and, ultimately, acceptance.Told through a prism of vintage perfumes, Base Notes is a poetic, poignant and bleakly comic chronicle of one woman's coming of age in Northern England, an alternative confessional of working-class life in the closing years of the late twentieth century.★★★★★ Telegraph Books of the Year'Candid and compelling' Guardian'It's the north of the 1980s that Stripe, a great noticer of telling details, perfectly captures' TLS'A small, bleak masterpiece' Observer

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Length 288 Pages
Language Eng
Imprint White Rabbit / Orion
Released N/A
Identifier (ISBN) 242834758
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Adelle Stripe is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Adelle Stripe can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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