Injury Time

ISBN-13: 9780349116112 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 224 str.

Beryl Bainbridge

Opis

Edward is throwing a dinner party with his mistress, aware that she has long been denied those small intimacies his wife takes for granted - sorting his socks, for example. Things seem to be going well, but then some uninvited guests arrive: Edward might not make it home on time.

Recenzje

I found myself laughing till the tears ran down my cheeks ... it is all horribly true to life ... a most excellent book and no one should miss it Auberon Waugh

O autorze

Beryl Bainbridge is the author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. The Dressmaker, The Bottle Factory Outing, An Awfully Big Adventure, Every Man for Himself and Master Georgie (which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Every Man for Himself was awarded the Whitbread Novel of the Year Prize. She won the Guardian Fiction Prize with The Dressmaker and the Whitbread Prize with Injury Time. The Bottle Factory Outing, Sweet William and The Dressmaker have all been adapted for film, as was An Awfully Big Adventure, which starred Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman. Beryl Bainbridge died in July 2010.