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An Awfully Big Adventure
- Author
- Beryl Bainbridge
- Narrator
- Charlotte Strevens
- Publisher
- Ulverscroft Ltd
- Publish Date
- 25 November 2025
- Run Time
- 5 hours 7 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
It is 1950 and the Liverpool repertory theatre company is rehearsing its Christmas production of Peter Pan, a story of childhood innocence and loss.
Stella has been taken on as assistant stage manager and quickly becomes obsessed with Meredith, the dissolute stage director. But it is only when the celebrated O’Hara arrives to take the lead that a different drama unfolds. In it, he and Stella are bound together in a past that neither dares to interpret.
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Details
- Author
- Beryl Bainbridge
- Narrator
- Charlotte Strevens
- Duration
- 5 hours 7 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 November 2025
- ISBN
- 9781399195584
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Ulverscroft Ltd
- Genre
- Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Humour
Synopsis
It is 1950 and the Liverpool repertory theatre company is rehearsing its Christmas production of Peter Pan, a story of childhood innocence and loss. Stella has been taken on as assistant stage manager and quickly becomes obsessed with Meredith, the dissolute stage director. But it is only when the celebrated O’Hara arrives to take the lead that a different drama unfolds. In it, he and Stella are bound together in a past that neither dares to interpret.
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