An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge #foliosociety through periods of personal struggle

through periods of personal struggle

and how they wage war

but also highly judgemental of others

lost to itself because blighted by greed

An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge #foliosociety through periods of personal struggleShortlisted 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