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The Dressmaker - Beryl Bainbridge
Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naïve and withdrawn. When she meets I... -
The Bottle Factory Outing - Beryl Bainbridge
Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory. A work outing offers promise for Freda and terror from Brenda; passions run high on that chilly d... -
Every Man for Himself - Beryl Bainbridge
Amazon.com ReviewAfter taking on the ill-fated Scott expedition to the South Pole in her previous book, From Publishers WeeklyBainbridge, whose The Birthday Boys was a... -
Another part of the wood - Beryl Bainbridge
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and other... -
An Awfully Big Adventure - Beryl Bainbridge
From Publishers WeeklyA Booker Prize nominee, Bainbridge's latest novel is a compelling read, again demonstrating her acuity of observation and darkly comic view of life. In Stella...