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An Awfully Big Adventure
by Beryl Bainbridge
This short novel concerns Stella Bradshaw, a 16-year-old in 1950s Liverpool, and her season as an intern at a repertory theater. Stella becomes tangled in the often melodramatic lives and relationships of the actors and staff, to both comic and tragic ends. Bainbridge's writing is succinct and probing - she conveys quite a lot in relatively few words. She also has a great sense of timing - things are revealed at precisely the right moment for the greatest effect.
by Beryl Bainbridge
This short novel concerns Stella Bradshaw, a 16-year-old in 1950s Liverpool, and her season as an intern at a repertory theater. Stella becomes tangled in the often melodramatic lives and relationships of the actors and staff, to both comic and tragic ends. Bainbridge's writing is succinct and probing - she conveys quite a lot in relatively few words. She also has a great sense of timing - things are revealed at precisely the right moment for the greatest effect.