George Hardy, an affluent doctor living in Liverpool in the 1840s,
attracts loyal friends from across the class divide. Myrtle, an
orphaned slum-child, worships the ground he walks on. Pompey Jones,
a cynical and mischievous street boy, makes the most of George's
misplaced affection. George's brother-in-law, Dr Potter, a
loquacious geologist, also holds him in high esteem, thinking
little of following the doctor and his family to the Crimea weeks
before the outbreak of war. This is a superb evocation of an age
and a formative period in the history of the British Empire but,
like all of Bainbridge's work, it is much more than that. It is one
of those books you long to consume in one sitting. Shortlisted for
the 1998 Booker prize. (Kirkus UK)
When Master Georgie - George Hardy, surgeon and photographer - sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services in the Crimea, there straggles behind him a small caravan of devoted followers; Myrtle, his adoring adoptive sister; lapsed geologist Dr Potter; and photographer’s assistant and sometime fire-eater Pompey Jones, all of them driven onwards through a rising tide of death and disease by a shared and mysterious guilt.
Combining a breathtaking eye for beauty with a visceral understanding of mortality, Beryl Bainbridge exposes her enigmatic hero as tenderly and unsparingly as she reveals the filth and misery of war, and creates a novel of luminous depth and extraordinary intensity.
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