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Motherwell : a girlhood
- Title
- Motherwell : a girlhood / Deborah Orr.
- Author
- Orr, Deborah, 1962-2019
- Publication
- London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020.
- ©2020
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 20-1734 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 294 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Just shy of 18, Deborah Orr left Motherwell - the town she both loved and hated - to go to university. It was a decision her mother railed against from the moment the idea was raised. Win had very little agency in the world, every choice was determined by the men in her life. And strangely, she wanted the same for her daughter. Attending university wasn't for the likes of the Orr family. Worse still, it would mean leaving Win behind - and Win wanted Deborah with her at all times, rather like she wanted her arm with her at all times. But while she managed to escape, Deborah's severing from her family was only superficial. She continued to travel back to Motherwell, fantasizing about the day that Win might come to accept her as good enough. Though of course it was never meant to be.
- Subjects
- Journalists
- Mothers and daughters
- Women journalists
- Scotland
- Journalists > Scotland > Biography
- Biographies
- Scotland > Motherwell
- 1900-1999
- Orr, Deborah, 1962-2019
- Mothers and daughters > Scotland > Motherwell
- Social conditions
- Autobiographies
- Women journalists > Scotland > Biography
- Motherwell (Scotland) > Social conditions > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-1734
- ISBN
- 9781474611459
- 1474611451
- 9781474611473 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019467502
- OCLC
- 1127093146
- Author
- Orr, Deborah, 1962-2019, author.
- Title
- Motherwell : a girlhood / Deborah Orr.
- Publisher
- London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781474611473
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-1734