Master Georgie

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Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, the WH Smith Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book; Nominated for the Booker Prize and The Orange Prize for Fiction

The highly acclaimed New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 1998 reinvents the historical novel.

A misadventure in a brothel links the destiny of the enigmatic George Hardy, a surgeon and amateur photographer, to a foundling who becomes his obsessively devoted maid, a wily street boy who takes advantage of his sexual ambiguity, and his alternately philosophical and libidinous brother-in-law in this terse, searing novel that takes them from the comfortable parlors of Victorian Liverpool to the horrific battlefields of the Crimean War.

Published by Carroll & Graf in 1998

Published by Abacus in 1999