Read more
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 Informationen zum Autor Beryl Bainbridge is the author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. The Dressmaker , The Bottle Factory Outing , An Awfully Big Adventure , Every Man for Himself and Master Georgie (which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Every Man for Himself was awarded the Whitbread Novel of the Year Prize. She won the Guardian Fiction Prize with The Dressmaker and the Whitbread Prize with Injury Time. The Bottle Factory Outing , Sweet William and The Dressmaker have all been adapted for film, as was An Awfully Big Adventure , which starred Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman. Beryl Bainbridge died in July 2010. Klappentext *'This is one of Bainbridge's best books. The close observation and hilarity are underlain by a sense of tragedy as deep as any in fiction' THE TIMES*'This is one of Bainbridge's best books. The close observation and hilarity are underlain by a sense of tragedy as deep as any in fiction' THE TIMES Zusammenfassung *'This is one of Bainbridge's best books. The close observation and hilarity are underlain by a sense of tragedy as deep as any in fiction' THE TIMES
