Master Georgie, by Beryl Bainbridge (Signed)

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Paperback. Signed by Author

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.