The book that finally won Beryl Bainbridge a Booker prize: by popular vote the Best of Beryl.The book that finally won Beryl Bainbridge a Booker prize: by popular vote the Best of Beryl.Beryl Bainbridge’s most popular novel explores the nature of love and obsession, as foster child Myrtle follows Master Georgie from the slums of nineteenth century Liverpool to the battlefields of the Crimea, where tragedy ensues.Praise for According to Queeney:‘It is hard to think of anyone now writing who understands the human heart as Beryl Bainbridge does, or exposes its workings with more tenderness’ The Times‘Duncan is memorable as the tetchy and spirited Mrs Thrale’. Sunday TimesDame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge was born in November 1932 in Liverpool. After some time as an actress she turned her hand to writing, winning the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel twice, and being nominated for the Booker Prize five times. Several of her books have been turned into films. Bainbridge died in July 2010.Shortlisted for the 1998 Booker PrizeWinner of the 1999 WH Smith Literary AwardWinner of the British Book Awards (Nibbies) Author of the Year accolade 1998Winner of the James Tate Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 1998
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