Book description
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. Beryl Bainbridge wrote seventeen novels, two travel
books and five plays for stage and television, she was shortlisted for
the Booker Prize five times, and won literary awards including the
Whitbread Prize and the Author of the Year Award at the British Book
Awards. She died in July 2010.
