Base Notes
Scenes from a Northern Girlhood
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Orion Publishing Co
UK
2026
Paperback
274
Standard
326798
978-1-399-60862-6
1-399-60862-2
Nostalgia: general
Annotation
It's the north of the 1980s that Stripe, a great noticer of telling details, perfectly captures' TLSA bedroom dreamer with a headful of Warhol, Adelle Stripe's formative years were ones of daytime drinking and religious fervour, frustrated mothers and reckless daughters, predacious strangers and punk rock energy. Snapshots of wild abandon and dead-end jobs pepper this evocative tale of metamorphosis alongside a wry clear-eyed account of maternal conflict, compassion and, ultimately, acceptance. Told through a prism of vintage perfumes, Base Notes is a poetic, poignant and bleakly comic chronicle of one woman's coming of age in Northern England, an alternative confessional of working-class life in the closing years of the late twentieth century.
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