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A four-time nominee for Britain's prestigious Booker Prize brings the horrors of war to frighteningly realistic life in the story of a group of British soldiers and their adventures in the nineteenth-century Crimean War. 35,000 first printing.
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English novelist Bainbridge has ingenuity in spades; her fans love her inventiveness in storytelling. They love her, too, for her consistent quality no matter how offbeat her plot or unique her expression. Her latest novel is in the historical fiction vein. Technique is the calling card here as Bainbridge limns the life of one George Hardy, a physician and amateur photographer in mid-nineteenth-century Liverpool, who volunteers his services in the far-off Crimean War. But the reader gets to know quirky, elusive Georgie not through his own words or even through his own mind but as he is perceived by three other people in his life: Myrtle, a foundling who was brought up as his sister; Pompey, his assistant; and Dr. Potter, his brother-in-law. The portrait of Georgie that emerges is rendered in the various shades of his significance to these individuals: what he means to each of them, and why. Bainbridge's prose is as concise and penetrating as poetry, and her historical setting rings with authenticity. Brad Hooper
Bainbridge (Every Man for Himself, LJ 9/15/96) begins her story in 1846 in Liverpool, England. Myrtle is an orphan, taken in and fussed over by the Hardy family until it gets a dog. She stays on as a servant of sorts and becomes smitten with Georgie, the son of the house. Although she follows him everywhere, he rarely acknowledges her, which does not cool her determined adoration. Georgie becomes a doctor, and Myrtle becomes the mother of his children when his own wife is unable to produce an heir. When Georgie volunteers for medical service in the Crimean War, Myrtle goes with him. Even learning that Georgie prefers men does not dampen her unrequited love. Though ascertaining who is speaking can be difficult, as a different character narrates each chapter, this story is well researched and well written. It includes particularly vivid descriptions of the war and the Victorian era, including the sexual undertones and overtones of the day. Recommended.?Joanna M. Burkhardt, Univ. of Rhode Island, Coll. of Continuing Education Lib., Watch Hill
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