![]() ![]() Sage found out, when she wrote the book and her father handed over her grandfather's diaries, that her grandmother had been blackmailing her husband, squirrelling away his silence payments in an account in their granddaughter's name. The "Old Devil" his twisted, malicious wife called him, and not affectionately. He was the village vicar, but not the respectable kind he was boozy and a serial womaniser. "It is amazing," says Sharon, always smiling.īad Blood was published 10 years ago, Lorna Sage's memoir of growing up in Hanmer, a village on the Welsh border where she lived, first, with her parents and grandparents in the vicarage, a filthy, gothic place that nobody cleaned. "It's nice when you meet someone and they know nothing about it." But still, how wonderful to have your family history – and what a family and a history it is – written so beautifully, for ever. "It is a bit exposing," she says at one point. I f having such a brilliant mother and her towering book is a burden, Sharon Tolaini-Sage carries it well and with cheerful good grace. ![]()
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