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Extraordinary... a wholly new and highly individual work of
art... beautifully written INDEPENDENT Marvellous... exquisite
pacing... stunning descriptions INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY A narrative
both sparkling and deep... the cost of raising [the Titanic] is
prohibitive; Bainbridge does the next best thing SUNDAY TIMES
Bainbridge''s masterpiece EVENING STANDARD
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 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 are
played out the last, secret hours of a small group of passengers,
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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Beryl Bainbridge is one of the greatest living novelists.
Author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for
stage and television, she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize
five times, and has won many literary awards including the
Whitbread Prize and the Author of the Year Award at the British
Book Awards.
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