An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge #foliosociety

An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge #foliosocietyShortlisted for the 1990 Booker Prize, and with a new introduction by Yiyun Li, a darkly comic novel of class, the long shadow of war, and unrequited first love. Liverpool, 1950. Sixteen year old Stella is hired as assistant stage manager by a repertory theatre company and soon falls into a heady infatuation with the director, Meredith failing to notice how he shows not only no interest in her, but in any woman. When the celebrated actor OHara arrives

The Book of Disquiet is a mesmerising

lost to itself because blighted by greed

she spends her days searching for a cure

6 cm and a 28-page booklet

Turning his attention to habitat destruction

And Other StoriesISBN: 9781913505783Extent: 192 pages

This updated edition of his ground-breaking first book will help you to identify over 1

through periods of personal struggle

and how they wage war

but also highly judgemental of others

killing over a million people every year

Rich with symbolism