for her fictionalising of historical catastophes (the sinking of the Titanic in Every Man for Himself; Captain Scott's ill-starred Antarctic expedition in The Birthday Boys; the Crimean war in Master Georgie) but the first of her novels that I read--and the one that's still my favourite--is An Awfully Big Adventure. In it, she drew on her experiences as an actor in repertory theatre to tell a tale of thwarted ambition and strategic sex, amid dusty stage flats and dustier streets in a pinched 1950s Liverpool.from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Which is the greatest Beryl Bainbridge book?
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