A01=Beryl Bainbridge
according to Queeney Beryl Bainbridge
Author_Beryl Bainbridge
awfully big adventure Beryl Bainbridge
Beryl Bainbridge
birthday boys Beryl Bainbridge
Booker prize winners
bottle factory outing Beryl Bainbridge
Category=FBA
eq_bestseller
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_modern-contemporary
eq_nobargain
every man for himself
fiction humour
fiction satire
girl in the polka dot dress Beryl Bainbridge
harriet said Beryl Bainbridge
humourous dark comedy
humourous literary fiction
injury time Beryl Bainbridge
literary fiction
master Georgie Beryl Bainbridge
psychological fiction
quiet life Beryl Bainbridge
the dressmaker Beryl Bainbridge
women writers
women's fiction
women’s fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9780349116112
- Weight: 155g
- Dimensions: 160 x 130mm
- Publication Date: 02 Oct 2003
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Edward is throwing a dinner party with Binny , his mistress. Aware that she has long been denied those small intimacies that his wife takes for granted - choosing a birthday present for his sister, for example, or sorting his socks - he wants to give her a chance to feel more involved in his life, to socialise with some of his friends (the discreet ones). Things are a little awkward to begin with - a late start and him having to be away by half past ten - but everything seems to be going well. But then some uninvited, and reather forceful guests arrive, and it doesn't look like Edward is going to make it home on time.
Beryl Bainbridge wrote seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television, she was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and won literary awards including the Whitbread Prize and the Author of the Year Award at the British Book Awards. She died in July 2010.
