Two Sisters - Morrison, Blake
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'Tender, vivid and achingly sad' GUARDIAN, BOOK OF THE YEAR TWO SISTERS publishes on the 30th anniversary of Blake Morrisonâ s ground-breaking book And When Did You Last See Your Father? which forged the way for a new genre of confessional memoir.

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'Tender, vivid and achingly sad' GUARDIAN, BOOK OF THE YEAR TWO SISTERS publishes on the 30th anniversary of Blake Morrisonâ s ground-breaking book And When Did You Last See Your Father? which forged the way for a new genre of confessional memoir.
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Autorenporträt
Blake Morrison is a poet, novelist and journalist. His non-fiction books include And When Did You Last See Your Father? (1993), which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize and the Esquire/Volvo/Waterstone's Non-Fiction Book Award, As If (1997), about the murder of the toddler James Bulger in Liverpool in 1993, and a memoir of his mother, Things My Mother Never Told Me (2002). His poetry includes the collections Dark Glasses (1984), winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, and Shingle Street (2015) He is a regular literary critic for the Guardian and the London Review of Books.
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'A book at once bold, magnanimous, heart-breaking and riveting...' HOWARD JACOBSON

'Beautiful. Affecting. Erudite.' SUSIE ORBACH

'Tender, vivid and achingly sad' GUARDIAN, BOOK OF THE YEAR

'A ground-breaking confessional memoir' BBC Books of 2023

'Pungent, disturbing, entirely unforgettable' THE TIMES

'Morrison writes with a reckless respect for the truth' GUARDIAN

'Harrowing, candid and clear-eyed, unflinchingly honest and self-critical. Two sad stories. The strangeness of families and the weight of the past. The guilt of being OK' NICCI GERRARD

'Few writers can claim to have affected the literary landscape like Blake Morrison... Two Sisters is not an easy book to read, but it is a bracingly honest one' MAIL ON SUNDAY, Book of the Week

'A wonderfully heartfelt and tender thing: delicate and unstinting and clear-eyed' OBSERVER, Book of the Week

'Engrossing' SPECTATOR

'A beautiful, brave and brutal memoir that does not shy away from hard truths' THE TIMES

'An acute, wonderfully adroit book, overflowing with sharp yet compassionate observations about human nature' THE INDEPENDENT

'A writer of undoubted skill' NEW STATESMAN

'Painful, hesitant, honest, agonised, controlled and (especially the latter) full of love' DAILY MAIL

'True to a complex, many-layered grief' TLS

''Morrison has a startling gift' LITERARY REVIEW

'Blake Morrison is a writer who tenderly and relentlessly lifts every stone, and the stones beneath, searching for the roots of human feelings and human relations, and revealing them to the reader' LOUISA YOUNG

'Affecting... it could help those who have lost a sibling' FINANCIAL TIMES

'Remarkable and heart-breaking' SHEER LUXE

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