Base Notes - The Scents of a Life

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<b>A <i>Telegraph</i> Best Book of 2025 'Ingenious' - ★★★★★ <i>Telegraph</i> 'Candid and compelling' - <i>Guardian</i> 'Wistful, sad and funny' - <i>Spectator</i> 'Working-class life pinned to the page' - <i>Herald</i></b> <i>'Already your future has been planned out. There is not much choice about what to become in the small town where you live . . .'</i> 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, <i>Base Notes</i> 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 tragicomic tale of wo