<p><b>WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD PRIZE FOR FICTION 1996</b><br><b>WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS'' PRIZE 1997</b><br><br><b>''A narrative both sparkling and deep . . . the cost of raising [the Titanic] is prohibitive; Bainbridge does the next best thing'' Hilary Mantel</b><br><b><br>''Brilliant . . . do not miss this novel'' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><b><br>''A moving, microcosmic portrait of an era''s bitter end'' <i>The Times</i></b><br><br>For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In her labyrinthine passageways the last, secret hours of a small group of passengers are played out, their fate sealed in prose of startling, sublime beauty, as Beryl Bainbridge''s haunting masterpiece moves inexorably to its known and terrible end.</p>
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A wonderful, immaculately researched novel that brings Dr Johnson, his friends and his times to life, reissued with a new introduction.
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*'This is one of Bainbridge's best books. The close observation and hilarity are underlain by a sense of tragedy as deep as any in fiction' THE TIMES
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The classic novel - the first she ever wrote - by acclaimed, Man Booker Prize-winning author Beryl Bainbridge, Harriet Said... is a dark and gripping story of adolescent transgression set in a 1950s seaside resort.
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Beryl Bainbridge's classic early novel of English domestic life after the War, A Quiet Life is laced with irony and wicked black humour, and was praised by Hilary Mantel as 'one of the funniest books I have ever read'.
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