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"A thoroughly enjoyable horror experience...totally convincing." AUBERON WAUGH "Extraordinary...full of surprises, full of truth." EVENING STANDARD "At thirteen there is very little you can expect to salvage from loving someone...No one will let you love yet. You're not expected to." But in the holidays, Harriet's plump, dreamy girlfriend develops a morbid interest in an unhappily married, middle-aged man. The two schoolgirls, lost in their own little fantasy world, begin a plot to humiliate "the Tsar". But in their secret schemes and artful ways, fantasy merges into reality with disturbing and unexpected results.
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Beryl Bainbridge (1932-2010) wrote eighteen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. Five of her novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Every Man for Himself and Injury Time won the Whitbread Prize, The Bottle Factory Outing won the Guardian Fiction Prize and Master Georgie won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Four of her novels including An Awfully Big Adventure were adapted for film. In 2011, Bainbridge was honoured posthumously with a special Best of Beryl Man Booker Prize in recognition of her outstanding career. Her final novel, The Girl in the Polka-dot Dress, was published in 2011.
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Compelling, horrifying, dramatic . . . [a] Molotov cocktail of teenage insecurity and dangerously partial understanding of maturity * Evening Standard * A sharp, chilling novel . . . The ending has real shock effect * Sunday Times * An extremely original and disconcerting story * Daily Telegraph *
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 014015695X
- ISBN 13 9780140156959
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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