Master Georgie Beryl Bainbridge by Beryl Bainbridge 9780349139036, 0349139032, B0049MPHUS instant download after payment.

Beryl Bainbridge explores the British experience of the Crimean War through the adventures - and hidden secrets - of her enigmatic central character.  "It is hard to think of anyone now writing who understands the human heart as Beryl Bainbridge does"  (The Times)

When George Hardy, a surgeon and photographer, sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services in the Crimea, there straggles behind him a small caravan of devoted followers: Myrtle, his adoring adoptive sister; lapsed geologist Dr Potter, and photographer’s assistant and sometime fire-eater Pompey Jones. All of them are driven onwards through a rising tide of death and disease by shared and mysterious guilt.

"Another masterly exploration by an author at the peak of her form ...She was always good at funny dialogue and acute observation of the oddities of human behaviour, but her recent historical explorations have given full reign to her startling powers of description."  -  Daily Telegraph

Longlisted for the 1999 Women's Prize For Fiction.

Beryl Bainbridge, who died in 2010, was a Booker Prize heroine. She was an actress (appearing in Coronation Street) before becoming a novelist and much-loved, cigarette-dangling public figure. Although Bainbridge was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, she never won. Some degree of correction occurred in 2011 when, after a public vote, her 1998-shortlisted novel Master Georgie won a one-off prize, The Man Booker Best of Beryl. The author of 20 novels, she found her greatest success with historical fiction.