Sage was raised by a vitriolic grandmother and an unstoppably adulterous grandfather in a vicarage on the Welsh borders.
This memoir takes us from her childhood through a turbulent adolescence, leaving her teetering on the brink of the 1960s.
Sage wittily brings to life a vanished time and place, as well as showing how dysfunctional relationships are passed on through three generations.
(Fourth Estate, £6.99)
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