Rose on the Run
Andrew O’Hagan: Beryl Bainbridge, 14 July 2011
The Girl in the Polka-Dot Dress
by Beryl Bainbridge.
Little, Brown, 197 pp., £16.99, May 2011,978 0 316 72848 5 Show More
by Beryl Bainbridge.
Little, Brown, 197 pp., £16.99, May 2011,
“... of the information that War and Peace contains. Even novels in which almost nothing happens – John McGahern’s, for instance – will speak in historical whispers, aiming to ‘disimprison’, as Coleridge once said, ‘the soul of fact’. Beryl Bainbridge was one of the last of the pre-Google English novelists, the last, you might say, following ... ”