An Awfully Big Adventure

Name: An Awfully Big Adventure
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ISBN: 9781917092500

Beryl Bainbridge, Yiyun Li

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Daunt Books
16 June 2026

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Liverpool, 1950. Sixteen-year-old Stella is hired as assistant stage manager by a repertory theatre company and soon falls into a heady infatuation with the director, Meredith - failing to notice how he shows not only no interest in her, but in any woman. When the celebrated actor O'Hara arrives to take the lead in their production of Peter Pan, it sets in motion a drama offstage of lost innocence, tragedy and miscommunication.

Peopled by a cast of eccentric characters and the air thick with the scent of greasepaint and cigarettes, An Awfully Big Adventure is an evocative and sharp-edged novel for fans of Penelope Fitzgerald, Muriel Spark and Camilla Grudova.

By: Beryl Bainbridge
Introduction by: Yiyun Li
Imprint: Daunt Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781917092500
ISBN 10: 1917092504
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 16 June 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Beryl Bainbridge was the author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and among other awards, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Novel of the Year and the Guardian Fiction Prize. She died in 2010.