The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time

Author:	Taylor, Catherine
Binding:	Hardcover
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ISBN:	9781474625302
Publisher:	Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Language:	English
Page Count:	229
Publication Date:	8/3/2023
Size:	9.00" l x 5.75" w x 1.00"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
Biography & Autobiography	Personal Memoirs

'The fear of where the Ripper would strike next was tangible that dark winter. It seemed to permeate everything - dank, mossy, and slimy as Frog Walk, the narrow, unlit footpath which ran alongside the high walls of Sheffield's overgrown, neglected General Cemetery. It slid, cold and viscous, into my dreams at night, like the mercury escaping from a thermometer.'

Catherine Taylor's account of growing up in northern England in the 1970s and 80s shines a light on the particular history of a time and place - that "strange country of the North" as George Orwell famously called it. Against this backdrop, and of music, the miners' strike, fears of nucelar war, and economic downturn - all of which become a character of sorts in her writing, Catherine creates a series of very personal essays on subjects traditionally seen as taboo: parental estrangement, abortion, chronic illness, and how an obsession with the serial killer who stalked Yorkshire throughout her childhood became the inspiration for early feminism - all shot through with poetry, risk-taking and humour.