Another Beryl Bainbridge that was nominated for the Booker Prize. I wonder if she ever really wanted to win. This novel is told through a series of vignettes that cover broad swathes in scope, but skip around in time and place along a journey to the Near East. “Master Georgie” and his adopted sister are leaving for the Crimea to serve as doctor and nurse for the British cause. This is a small novel that pretends to be a large novel and in a lot […]