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Title: Bad Blood
Subtitle: Tales of the Notorious Hudson Family, Book 5
Author: Julie Shaw
Narrator: Nigel Peever
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-14-16
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:
It's 1971, and 17-year-old Christine is about to give birth to her son. When her family throw her out, Christine has the biggest fight of her life to bring up her son safe on the infamous Canterbury Estate in Bradford, rife with crime, alcohol and drugs, a place where family is everything and nothing.
It's Friday evening on the Canterbury Estate in Bradford, and Christine, who's been rushed to hospital by her friend, Josie, is on the maternity ward giving birth. She's 17 and terrified. Not just of the pain, which is ripping her in two, but because she knows that once the baby arrives, her family is never going to speak to her again. Her beautiful baby boy is about to start a chain of events that will lead to tragedy - and only her own family can save her.

Members Reviews:
I didn't know I could both love and hate a book so much - stunning!
A hard hitting, gritty, true life drama that takes you on an exhausting roller coaster of heart breaking emotions.
If you like a good HEA - this is not the book for you. If you like a good romance with plenty of hot sex - this is not the book for you. If you like a book that rips emotion from you page after page making you cringe, cry, gasp in horror, growl in frustration and sit bolt upright in shock then this is most certainly the book for you!
Set in a time that few of us remember, before mobile phones and social media it sucks you straight back to the depression of the time and the area, it is heart breaking to realise just how easy it is for Christine and her peers to stumble slightly and before they know where they are their life is in a downward spiral that just gets faster and faster, with little help and support available from the community or the authorities. It is very easy to jump to quick judgement about 'these people' and the life they live but this book opens your eyes and makes you think, makes you very grateful for the childhood and upbringing you did have.
Fantastic book which is beautifully written despite the traumatic subject, it has left me completely emotionally drained - I loved it!

a good Ken Loach film
Despite the semi-lurid cover and cliché title (and curiously misleading subtitle) this is not a sensationalist tell-all about a famous crime family. It is more in the lines of a gritty social doc-drama, and as that, it's a decent, albeit mostly depressing, read. The inevitable realities of lives lived on the low end of the poverty scale in Britain are laid out without excessive judgment, but without the poignancy of say, a good Ken Loach film..