A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR - Told with warmth, wit and unflinching humour, BASE NOTES shares an alternative confessional of Northern working-class life in the 1980s
'Candid and compelling' GUARDIAN
'Deeply evocative' Wendy Erskine
'A small, bleak masterpiece' Chris Power, OBSERVER
'Poignant and grimly hilarious' DAZED
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, predacious strangers and punk rock energy. Snapshots of wild abandon and dead-end jobs pepper this evocative tale of metamorphosis alongside a wry clear-eyed account of maternal conflict, compassion and, ultimately, acceptance.
Told through a prism of vintage perfumes, Base Notes is a poetic, poignant and bleakly comic chronicle of one woman's coming of age in Northern England, an alternative confessional of working-class life in the closing years of the late twentieth century.
| ISBN: | 9781399608626 |
| Publication date: | 12th February 2026 |
| Author: | Adelle Stripe |
| Publisher: | White Rabbit an imprint of Orion |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Genres: |
Memoirs Autobiography: arts and entertainment Narrative theme: Coming of age Narrative theme: Love and relationships Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss Narrative theme: Interior life Narrative theme: Sense of place Narrative theme: Social issues Perfume and incense Nostalgia: general |
A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR - Told with warmth, wit and unflinching humour, BASE NOTES shares an alternative confessional of Northern working-class life in the 1980s
'Candid and compelling' GUARDIAN
'Deeply evocative' Wendy Erskine
'A small, bleak masterpiece' Chris Power, OBSERVER
'Poignant and grimly hilarious' DAZED
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, predacious strangers and punk rock energy. Snapshots of wild abandon and dead-end jobs pepper this evocative tale of metamorphosis alongside a wry clear-eyed account of maternal conflict, compassion and, ultimately, acceptance.
Told through a prism of vintage perfumes, Base Notes is a poetic, poignant and bleakly comic chronicle of one woman's coming of age in Northern England, an alternative confessional of working-class life in the closing years of the late twentieth century.
Base Notes features in the following genres: Memoirs, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Social issues, Perfume and incense, Nostalgia: general
Base Notes is available in Paperback, Hardback
Base Notes was written by Adelle Stripe and published by White Rabbit an imprint of Orion
Base Notes has 288 pages
£11.69