The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress (15 page)

 

Beryl Bainbridge was the author of seventeen novels.
The Dressmaker, The Bottle Factory Outing, An Awfully Big Adventure, Every Man For Himself and Master Georgie
were all finalists for the Booker Prize, and
Every Man For Himself
won the Whitbread Novel of the Year Prize.
The Guardian
includes
The Bottle Factory Outing
on their list of the 100 Greatest Novels of All Time.
An Awfully Big Adventure
was adapted for a film starring Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman.

 

Beryl Bainbridge died in July 2010.