title: An Awfully Big Adventure
author:  Beryl Bainbridge 
description: Beryl Bainbridge wrote seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television, she was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and won literary awards including the Whitbread Prize and the Author of the Year Award at the British Book Awards. She died in July 2010.
zlib_text: About the Author
  
  
  **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 been adapted for film, as was An Awfully Big Adventure,
  which starred Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman. Beryl Bainbridge died in July 2010.
  
  
  _Also by Beryl Bainbridge_
  
  
  FICTION
  
  
  According to Queeney
  
  
  An Awfully Big Adventure
  
  
  Another Part of the Wood
  
  
  The Birthday Boys
  
  
  The Bottle Factory Outing
  
  
  Collected Stories
  
  
  The Dressmaker
  
  
  Every Man for Himself
  
  
  Filthy Lucre
  
  
  Harriet Said
  
  
  Master Georgie
  
  
  Mum and Mr Armitag