An Awfully Big Adventure

by Beryl Bainbridge, Yiyun Li (Foreword by)

Overview

This provocative and compelling novel by one of Britian's leading writers tells the darkly humorous tale of Stella, a star-struck, teenaged actress caught in the backstage intrigue of a 1950s Liverpool theater repertory company. Stella romances the director of a production of Peter Pan with consequences that would be uproariously funny if they were not so dire. The play becomes a metaphor for the darker side of youth as Stella is drawn into very adult mayhem.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781961341920
Publisher:	McNally Editions
Publication date:	03/10/2026
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208

Editorial Reviews

. . .Bainbridge uses a repertory theater company in Liverpool in the 1950's as the stage for her heroine's grimy coming of age. . . .While the strength of this novel lies in its realism, its clever prose, its faithfully drawn scenery, its memorable vignettes, there is, in the end, something too intended in the story, something missing from the book. What it lacks, perhaps, is reverberation. -- The New York Times

Lynn Freed