Master Georgie - Softcover

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Beryl Bainbridge was one of the greatest living novelists. Author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television, she was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and won many literary awards including the Whitbread Prize and the Author of the Year Award at the British Book Awards. She died in July 2010.

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When Master Georgie - George Hardy, a surgeon and photographer - sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services in the Crimea, there straggles behind him a small caravan of devoted followers: Myrtle, his adoring adoptive sister; lapsed geologist Dr Potter; and photographer's assistant and sometime fire-eater Pompey Jones, all of them driven onwards through a rising tide of death and disease by a shared and mysterious guilt.

Combining a breathtaking eye for beauty with a visceral understanding of morality, Beryl Bainbridge exposes her enigmatic hero as tenderly and unsparingly as she reveals the filth and misery of war, and creates a novel of luminous depth and extraordinary intensity.

'It is hard to think of anyone who understands the human heart as Beryl Bainbridge does . . . Master Georgie is brief, intense, and remains seared on the mind long after reading. . . extraordinary' The Times

'A novella-sized miracle of passion and war' Ruth Rendell

'A marvellous, dark, unpredictable novel - her best yet' Kate Kellaway, Observer

'Scintillating . . . This is a wonderful book: it delights in history and in the eternal vanities, foibles and eccentricities of human nature' Evening Standard