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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...
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Shortlisted for the 1990 Booker Prize, a darkly comic novel of class, the long shadow of war and unrequited first love, now with a new introduction by Yiyun Li.
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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 O'Hara arrives to take the lead in their production of Peter Pan, it sets in motion a drama offstage of lost innocence, tragedy, and miscommunication.
Peopled by a cast of eccentric characters and the air thick with the scent of greasepaint and cigarettes, An Awfully Big Adventure is an evocative and sharp-edged novel for fans of Penelope Fitzgerald, Muriel Spark, and Camilla Grudova.
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ISBN: 9781917092500
Publisher: Daunt Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 March 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Daunt Books
Contributors:
- Introduction by Yiyun Li
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Beryl Bainbridge was the author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and among other awards, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Novel of the Year and the Guardian Fiction Prize. She died in 2010.
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