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Motherwell review: The late Deborah Orr’s girlhood memoir is excellent

March 19, 2020 by Read Sector

The late Deborah Orr’s excellent memoir, Motherwell, charts her vexed relationship with her parents in impassioned yet tender prose By Anthony Quinn Published: 22:02 GMT, 25 January 2020 | Updated: 16:11 GMT, 26 January 2020 Motherwell Deborah Orr … Read more

Deborah Orr’s raw account of escaping her stifling childhood is both shocking and triumphant

March 17, 2020 by Read Sector

MEMOIR MOTHERWELL: A GIRLHOOD by Deborah Orr (Weidenfeld £16.99, 304 pp) Deborah Orr, a leading Fleet Street columnist who died of breast cancer last October aged 57, has left behind this memoir of growing up in Lanarkshire that is searing, candid, magnificently perceptive and lingeringly tragic — tragic because the story is full of conflict, … Read more