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Funny Noises with our Mouths

Beryl Bainbridge

‘If we went out to tea in Southport and my mother left a tip under the plate, my grandmother used to pick it up and slide it into her handbag.’

Beryl Bainbridge

Beryl Bainbridge (1932-2010) was an English writer from Liverpool. The Bottle Factory Outing (1974), won the Guardian Fiction Prize and Injury Time (1977) won the Whitbread Novel Award. Every Man For Himself (1996) won the Whitbread Novel Award and Master Georgie (1998) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction) and the W.H. Smith Literary Award. The Dressmaker (1973) and An Awfully Big Adventure (1989) were both adapted for the screen.

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