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Adelle Stripe Discusses Her Memoir "Base Notes - The Scents of a Life"

Monday 24th February 2025
18:30 at Waterstones, Liverpool

Adelle Stripe Discusses Her Memoir "Base Notes - The Scents of a Life"

'Already your future has been planned out. There is not much choice about what to become in the small town where you live . . .'

A bedroom dreamer with a headful of Warhol, Adelle Stripe's formative years were ones of daytime drinking and religious fervour, frustrated mothers and reckless daughters, desire, ambition and the pursuit of creativity. Told through a prism of vintage perfumes, and played out in vivid detail with startling clarity and colour, BaseNotes chronicles an unbridled Northern England of the late 20th century already fading from view.

With a keen eye for the absurd, an ear cocked to eavesdropped conversations and a nose that finds perfume wherever it goes, this tragi-comic tale of working-class womanhood is no clichéd story of redemption or escape, but instead a bleakly funny yet unflinching memoir of dead-end jobs, lost weekends, brief encounters and those wild, forgotten characters who slip through the cracks.

Infused with acerbic observations and unexpected poignancy, Base Notes sees Adelle Stripe boldly laying her lived experience on the page, creating literature from a life less ordinary.

Adelle will be discussing her brilliantly observed memoir with Andy Miller. Andy is a reader, author, an editor of books and co-host of the literary podcast Backlisted. He wears ‘Whispers in the Library’ from Maison Margiela, Paris.

Liverpool Waterstones, Liverpool
Monday 24th February 2025
18:30
£6/£5 for Waterstones Card holders
£20 includes admission and a copy of Base Notes

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