Nominee · The Booker Prize 1990
An Awfully Big Adventure
novel by Beryl Bainbridge
It is 1950 and Stella has been taken on as assistant stage manager for a Liverpool rep company. She quickly becomes obsessed with their dissolute director, but when the celebrated O'Hara arrives to take the lead, a different drama unfolds. He and Stella are bound in a past neither dares interpret.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- psychological fiction
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