An entertaining and insightful observer of the human condition, Beryl Bainbridge is one of the most highly regarded fiction writers in Great Britain. She began her career with a series of blackly humorous, biting fictions depicting people of lowered expe...

Having published ten novels in thirteen years, primarily to "tell her story," Beryl Bainbridge has good reason to view her literary career with satisfaction. An unassuming and deferential person, Bainbridge is a spartan writer whose wit, humor, and origi...