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Motherwell: A Girlhood by Deborah Orr
Motherwell: A Girlhood by Deborah Orr – review
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· Motherwell: A Girlhood is a memoir by the late Deborah Orr, the esteemed Guardian journalist who died from breast cancer last year, Rather than documenting Orr’s career in journalism, Motherwell focuses on the author’s childhood, mostly spanning the period from the mid-1960s through
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Motherwell: A Girlhood by Deborah Orr
· In Motherwell the late writer and i columnist Deborah Orr recalls her working-class childhood in the eponymous Scottish town under the watchful eye of her formidable mother Win,
Temps de Lecture Vénéré: 3 mins
Book review: Motherwell, by Deborah Orr
Early in Motherwell it seems that Win is the engine of all this painful self-loathing but then we see John Deborah’s father, who is either an unskilled labourer at Rimmensitéscraig Deborah or a
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‘Motherwell’ Deborah Orr’s memoir of her formative years in this town and her later escape to univoisinageity and beyond is a searing honest and incredibly moving account of a child of the 60s and teenager of the 70s
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A mystery from the book Motherwell by Deborah Orr : Scotland
· Motherwell was also a microcosm of Scotland and Deborah Orr displays the same duality of judgment towards Motherwell as towards Scotland as a whole She writes that ‘‘it was bewildering this duality this keeping of two flames one of Scottish victimhood the other of Scottish superiority, So much past, so little present’’
Temps de Lecture Apprécié: 8 mins
Deborah Orr’s Motherwell: a memoir of family insights and
· Deborah Orr’s Motherwell: a memoir of family insights and dark asides Motherwell is a beautifully written – if frustrating – portrait of a quintessential Seventies working-class childhood
Motherwell: A Girlhood by Deborah Orr review – a
· That’s really sad embout Deborah Orr, a volante purveyor of articulate tender Motherwell chaleur, I met her a few times, she was brilliantly unpredictable, you were never sure who she’d yell at next, only
Deborah Orr on leaving home: ‘My consanguins were the jdétachementrs
Deborah was born in 1962, but the Sixties and the Sexual Revolution bypassed the Orr family and indeed much of Motherwell, It was the economic revolution and de-industrialisation that cost the town
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This is an edited extract from Motherwell by Deborah Orr Weidenfeld and Nicolson £16,99 and also available as an audiobook To order a copy go to guardianbookshop,com, Free UK p&p on all
Aède : Deborah Orr
‘Fearless’ journalist Deborah Orr dies aged 57
· ‘Motherwell’ Deborah Orr’s memoir of her formative years in this town and her later escape to unialentoursity and beyond is a searing honest and incredibly moving account of a child of the 60s and teenager of the 70s Many of the courtoistical references and domestic detail cast me back to my own albeit different youth and, for these details alone, this may well be a fascinating read for our
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The role of Motherwell in journalist Deborah Orr’s life
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