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Adelle Stripe is an author, poet and journalist based in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. Her books include the Sunday Times bestseller Ten Thousand Apologies, and Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, a fictionalised biography inspired by the playwright Andrea Dunbar. She was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, Portico Prize for Literature and Penderyn Music Book Prize. As a journalist, she has contributed to The Quietus, New Statesman, Record Collector and Yorkshire Post. She is a recipient of Manchester University's Anthony Burgess Fellowship.
A fragrant and fabulous episodic memoir -- Editor's Choice * The Bookseller * Ingenious. A story of family in all its fractures and complexity... Its symphonic olfactory narration has a sharpness and depth of recollection which remains as vivid as their first experiencing ★★★★★ * Telegraph * Candid and compelling * Guardian * Wistful, sad and funny . . . top notes of humour, insouciance and bravery lift the story into art * Suzi Feay, Spectator * Working-class life pinned to the page -- Teddy Jamieson * The Herald * Poignant and grimly hilarious * Dazed * It's got both style and warmth and made me cry. I loved this rock and roll spirit coming out of small town Yorkshire -- Amy Liptrot Deeply evocative -- Wendy Erskine As the whiff of a past love's perfume takes part of me back to a party in 1979, [her] memoir is further proof that through scent time travel is indeed possible for us mortals . . . scratch and sniff Proust -- George Shaw Adelle Stripe locates a seam of universal longing amidst a northern soul's sundry particulars: epic drinking, Morrissey lyrics, embarrassing family, bedsit love, wayward journeys, and the recollected scents and songs of a lifetime's pain, passion and loss -- Rob Doyle This is a beautiful book -- Anna Wood An addictive - frequently devastating - memoir of escape, immolation and reinvention -- Fergal Kinney
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