"A lifelong smoker, who towards the end cut down to “only thirty a day or so,” she lived in a terrace in Camden, clotted with bizarre bric-a-brac including a buffalo’s head in the hallway and a lifesize dummy of Neville Chamberlain (which started out as Adolf Hitler, but was later repurposed)."
@martindoyle.bsky.socialBeryl Bainbridge drew on her own life for her funny, dark novels. As two of the British writer’s best works, The Bottle Factory Outing and An Awfully Big Adventure, are republished this month, John Self reassesses her writing
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Beryl Bainbridge drew on her own life for her funny, dark novels
Two of the British writer’s best works, The Bottle Factory Outing and An Awfully Big Adventure, are republished this month
