Beryl Bainbridge enthralled us with the account of Captain Scott's
expedition to the South Pole and here we are with another ill-fated
voyage, the maiden voyage of HMS Titanic to New York in 1912. The
fact that we know how it will all end in no way detracts from this
scintillating novel. The narrator is the nephew of the owner of the
shipping line sailing the Titanic. During the four days before
disaster strikes we are given glimpses of his troubled past, learn
of his ambitions for the future and watch helplessly as he falls
for a money-digging American woman who is far more interested in
bedding the rich and well-connected men on board. The author
vividly conveys the enclosed world, the white-tie dinners, the
squash courts and reading rooms and the characters which inhabit
them, schemers, dreamers, snobs and social climbers. This tale is a
parable - we are all heading blithely to our doom while the band
plays on - but it is never clunking. Bainbridge is writing at the
top of her talent. A soon as you have finished the book, you will
want to read it again, and discover new depths, deeper waters.
Booker shortlist 1996. (Kirkus UK)
For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In her labyrinthine passageways the last, secret hours of a small group of passengers are played out, their fate sealed in prose of startling, sublime beauty, as Beryl Bainbridge's haunting masterpiece moves inexorably to its known and terrible end.
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