The Dressmaker - Beryl Bainbridge [63]
‘Marvellous … exquisite pacing … stunning descriptions’
Independent on Sunday
Abacus
978–0–349–10870–4
WINTER GARDEN
Beryl Bainbridge
‘Brilliant … marvellous comedy … a tour de force’
Observer
‘Razor sharp … Bainbridge takes special pleasure in
human unpredictability. She shows that people
are hardly ever what they appear’
New York Times Book Review
Quiet and reliable, Douglas Ashburner has never been much
of a womaniser. So when he begins an extra-marital affair
with Nina, a bossy, temperamental artist with a penchant
for risky sex, he finds adultery a terrible strain.
He tells his wife that he needs a rest, so she happily packs
him off for a fishing holiday in the Highlands. Only,
unknown to her, Douglas is actually flying off to Moscow
with Nina, as a guest of the Soviet Artists’ Union. It is then
that things begin to get very complicated indeed …
‘A very funny as well as a frightening book’ Guardian
‘Marvellously deft … comedy is secreted everywhere, like honey;
but it is a surreal little honeycomb, with sharp teeth’
Times Literary Supplement
‘Well plotted and often very funny’ Sunday Times
Abacus
978–0–349–11609–9