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An Awfully Big Adventure

9 best books like An Awfully Big Adventure (Beryl Bainbridge): The Accidental, The Blue Flower, The Way of All Flesh, Don't Look Now, West, A Far Cry from Kensington, Loitering with Intent, According to Mark, Rule Britannia

The Accidental
AuthorAli Smith
ISBN1400032180
Winner of the Whitbread Award for best novel and a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, The Accidental is the virtuoso new novel by the singularly gifted Ali Smith. Jonathan Safran Foer has called her writing “thrilling.” Jeanette Winterson has praised her for her “style, ideas, and punch.”...
The Blue Flower
AuthorPenelope Fitzgerald
ISBN0395859972
Penelope Fitzgerald wrote her first novel 20 years ago, at the age of 59. Since then, she's written eight more, three of which have been short-listed for England's prestigious Booker Prize, and one of which, Offshore, won. Now she's back with her tenth and best book so far, The Blue Flower. This is the...
The Way of All Flesh
AuthorSamuel Butler
ISBN0486434664
Written between 1873 and 1884 and published posthumously in 1903, The Way of All Flesh is regarded by some as the first twentieth-century novel. Samuel Butler's autobiographical account of a harsh upbringing and troubled adulthood shines an iconoclastic light on the hypocrisy of a Victorian clerical...
Don't Look Now
AuthorDaphne du Maurier
ISBN1590172884
An NYRB Original
Daphne du Maurier wrote some of the most compelling and creepy novels of the twentieth century. In books like Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, and Jamaica Inn she transformed the small dramas of everyday life—love, grief, jealousy—into the stuff of nightmares. Less known, though...
West
AuthorCarys Davies
ISBN1501179349
When widowed mule breeder Cy Bellman reads in the newspaper that colossal ancient bones have been discovered in the salty Kentucky mud, he sets out from his small Pennsylvania farm to see for himself if the rumors are true: that the giant monsters are still alive and roam the uncharted wilderness beyond...
A Far Cry from Kensington
AuthorMuriel Spark
ISBN0811214575
Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilariously portraying love, fraud, death, evil, and transformation. Mrs. Hawkins, the majestic narrator of A Far Cry from Kensington, takes us well in hand and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar...
Loitering with Intent
AuthorMuriel Spark
ISBN0811214745
"How wonderful to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century," Fleur Talbot rejoices. Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with intent to gather material for her writing, Fleur finds a job "on the grubby edge of the literary world," as secretary to the peculiar Autobiographical Association....
According to Mark
AuthorPenelope Lively
ISBN0060971991
I read this book as part of the 2019 Mookse Madness Tournament.

This link contains a plot description – as well as one of the three central characters (who all appear as point of view characters, in some cases all three observing the same scene)

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Rule Britannia
AuthorDaphne du Maurier
ISBN0316253006
"A diverse and engrossing cast of characters...provocative, diverting." --Chicago Tribune

Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cozy existence she shares with her grandmother, an eccentric retired actress known to all as Madam, has been shattered: there's no post, no...
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