Bad Blood

Name: Bad Blood
Brand: Harper UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Julie Shaw
ISBN: 9780008142865

Author: Julie Shaw

Narrator: Nigel Peever

Unabridged: 9 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 07/14/2016

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs, History, European History, Family & Relationships, Parenting, True Crime, Organized Crime

Synopsis

It’s 1971 and seventeen-year-old Christine is about to give birth to her son. When her family throw her out, Christine has the biggest fight of her life to bring up her son safe on the infamous Canterbury Estate in Bradford, rife with crime, alcohol and drugs, a place where family is everything and nothing. It's Friday evening on the Canterbury Estate in Bradford and Christine, who's been rushed to hospital by her friend, Josie, is on the maternity ward giving birth. She's 17 and terrified. Not just of the pain, which is ripping her in two, but because she knows that once the baby arrives, her family is never going to speak to her again. Her beautiful baby boy is about to start a chain of events that will lead to tragedy – and only her own family can save her.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lainy

Time taken to read - 3 days Publisher - Harper Element Pages - 336 Blurb from Goodreads It’s 1981 and seventeen-year-old Christine is about to give birth to her son. When her family throw her out, Christine has the biggest fight of her life to bring up her son safe on the infamous Canterbury Estate in B......more

Goodreads review by Becky

Enjoyed! The ending seemed rushed could of been better!! out of all of Julie shaws books I think the first I read my uncle Vinnie was the best......more

Goodreads review by Best Crime Books & More

This is the first (but not the last) of Julie Shaw's books that I have read. Her books focus on the Hudson family and if you read Julie's Bio you realise these books are not borne from imagination, more like experience. In Bad Blood its the seventies and the young and inexperienced 17 year old Chris......more

Goodreads review by Jenny

Set on a council estate in Bradford, life just gets worse and worse for 17-year old Christine, the central character in the book. Probably a very realistic portrayal of a life which I know little about – drugs, living on benefits, teenage pregnancies, gangs, poverty etc. Various themes are explored......more