An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge #foliosociety And Other StoriesISBN: 9781913505783Extent: 192

And Other StoriesISBN: 9781913505783Extent: 192 pages

The Book of Disquiet is a mesmerising

lost to itself because blighted by greed

Turning his attention to habitat destruction

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

An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge #foliosociety And Other StoriesISBN: 9781913505783Extent: 192Shortlisted 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