The Stirrings: Coming of Age in Northern Time
by Catherine Taylor
🏆 Winner of the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize
An atmospheric memoir by the British critic Catherine Taylor offering an account of her teenage years in Sheffield, England, against a backdrop of industrial unrest and the terrors of the Yorkshire Ripper serial killer. The Guardian called it “a lyrical account of what cities and their residents witness, how places shape character.”