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Sweet William

Sweet William

by Beryl Bainbridge

Publisher Duckworth

Genre: General Fiction

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About the book

'People came in and out, chairs were moved, dishes gathered up on trays, but it was happening at a great distance; she concentrated entirely on his pink face crowned with foppish curls.'

Genteel, passive Ann works for the BBC in London and is engaged to a successful academic, fulfilling her snobbish mother's ambitions - more or less - while the Swinging Sixties happen elsewhere, to other people. Then she meets William: snub-nosed and generous, cunning and protean. She is first seduced, then transfixed, as William's past, present and future swirl around her kaleidoscopically, overwhelmingly, and Ann is herself irrevocably, and irreparably, changed...

About the Author

Beryl Bainbridge

Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge DBE was an English writer from Liverpool.


She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often set among the English working classes.


Bainbridge won the Whitbread Award twice and was nominated for the Booker Prize five times. In 2008, The Times newspaper named Bainbridge among their list of "The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945".

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