Love By All Sorts Of Means

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"The biography of the year" - Mail on Sunday

"Astonishing" - Washington Post

A Guardian Book of the Year 2016

The definitive biography of Beryl Bainbridge, written by one of her closest collaborators. Brendan King draws on a mass of unpublished letters and diaries to reveal the real woman behind the popular image. He explores Bainbridge's difficult childhood in Formby, her career as a young actress at the Liverpool Playhouse, and her life as a single mother and writer in Camden Town. Along the way he tackles her complex private life: her failed marriage to the painter Austin Davies, her affairs, and her longstanding relationship with her publisher, Colin Haycraft.

This frank portrait of Beryl Bainbridge tells the story of a life that is every bit as dramatic and compelling as one of her own perfectly-crafted novels.

Published by Bloomsbury, 2016