An Awfully Big Adventure
Author(s): Beryl Bainbridge
It is 1950 and the Liverpool reporatory theatre company is rehearsing its Christmas production of Peter Pan, a story of childhood innocence and loss. Stella has been taken on as assistant stage manager and quickly becomes obsessed with Meredith, the dissolute director. But it is only when the celebrated O'Hara arrives to take the lead, that a different drama unfolds. In it, he and Stella are bound together in a past that neither dares to interpret.
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*'Vintage bittersweet Bainbridge' MAIL ON SUNDAY *'Imagine Priestley's THE GOOD COMPANIONS as written by Gogol and you will have some idea of the mixture of waggish humour and sordid pathos in Bainbridge's novel' SUNDAY TIMES *'A subtle schizophrenic insight into adult relationships . Bainbridge's understated prose and obsessive eye for the smallest and most telling of details have never been better employed' TIME OUT
Beryl Bainbridge is one of the greatest living novelists. Author of 17 novels, 2 travel books & 5 plays for stage & tv, she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize 5 times & has won many literary awards including the Whitbread Prize & the Author of the Year Award at the British Book Awards.
General Fields
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- : Little, Brown Book Group
- : Abacus
- : 0.17
- : 31 January 0000
- : 197mm X 126mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 June 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Beryl Bainbridge
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 823.914
- : 208