Rose George

Violence overshadowed my Yorkshire childhood

Catherine Taylor describes her anxiety growing up in Sheffield against an ‘uneasy backdrop’ of picketing miners, the Hillsborough disaster and a serial killer on the loose

Fear of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, overshadowed much of Catherine Taylor’s childhood. [Getty Images]

  • The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time

    Catherine Taylor

    Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp. 240, £16

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