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The Stirrings
- A Memoir in Northern Time
- Narrated by: Catherine Taylor
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
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Summary
No life exists outside the times.
This is a story about one young woman coming of age, and about the place and time that shaped her: the North of England in the 1970s and 80s.
About the scorching summer of 1976 - the last Catherine Taylor would spend with both her parents in their home in Sheffield.
About the Yorkshire Ripper, the serial killer whose haunting presence in Catherine's childhood was matched only by the aching absence of her own father.
About a country thrown into disarray by the nuclear threat and the Miners' Strike, just as Catherine's adolescent body was invaded by a debilitating illness.
About 1989's 'Second Summer of Love', a time of sexual awakening for Catherine, and the unforeseen consequences that followed it.
About a tragic accident, and how the insidious dangers facing women would became increasingly apparent as Catherine crossed into to adulthood.
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- JuliaC
- 05-11-23
Great memoir of a Sheffield young woman
I loved this memoir. I am a similar age as the author - who also narrates her book with much feeling- and many of her experiences resonate deeply with me. The fear felt by women of going out alone in the era of the Yorkshire Ripper, the student days when the importance of everything is heightened, the internal emotional damage of a parent leaving. This makes it sound quite bleak but she also recalls funny small details of what she ate, drank, and wore. I loved it and would like to read more of her work.
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- Claire Mcgettigan
- 07-12-23
Loved it
I really enjoyed this book.
I’m a geordie lass but have lived in Sheffield since 2000 so I know a lot of the places mentioned.
Lots of nostalgia I could relate to.
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