An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge #foliosociety This updated edition of his

This updated edition of his ground-breaking first book will help you to identify over 1

and how they wage war

she spends her days searching for a cure

Turning his attention to habitat destruction

killing over a million people every year

An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge #foliosociety This updated edition of hisShortlisted 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