Master Georgie / Beryl Bainbridge Bainbridge, Beryl, 1932-2010

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Bainbridge, Beryl, 1932-2010
Subjects
Crimean War, 1853-1856 - Fiction.; Inkerman (Ukraine), Battle of, 1854 - Fiction.; Fiction.
Audience
Adult; General
Summary
When Master Georgie - George Hardy, surgeon and photographer - sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services in the Crimea, there straggles behind him a small caravan of devoted followers; Myrtle, his adoring adoptive sister; lapsed geologist Dr Potter; and photographer's assistant and sometime fire-eater Pompey Jones, all of them driven onwards through a rising tide of death and disease by a shared and mysterious guilt. Combining a breathtaking eye for beauty with a visceral understanding of mortality, Beryl Bainbridge exposes her enigmatic hero as tenderly and unsparingly as she reveals the filth and misery of war, and creates a novel of luminous depth and extraordinary intensity.
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