Beryl Bainbridge

Dame Beryl Margaret BainbridgeDBE was an English writer. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. She won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996, and was nominated five times for the Booker Prize.

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