Girl in the Polka Dot Dress - Hardcover

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.

Blazes with Bainbridge's unique talent . . . The Girl in the Polka-dot Dress is a superb and memorable work of fiction -- Melvyn Bragg * Observer * The Girl in the Polka-dot Dress is very gripping, very funny and deeply mysterious . . . Washington Harold is a superbly self-preoccupied monster, one of Bainbridge's best creations -- A. N. Wilson * Spectator * A tour de force . . . the comedy is marvellously black -- Mark Bostridge * Financial Times * Ranks among the finest of Bainbridge's fine works of fiction . . . Sombre, terrifying and hilarious -- Paul Bailey * Independent *