“Beryl Bainbridge has writers’ block. (You’d think, wouldn’t you, that after 17 novels she’d have got the hang of it?) The problem, it seems, has been the title. It has taken her two years to get it right. For a while it was called The Might Have Been: a perfectly good title; nicely intriguing, with a hint of her trademark wry humour. But she wasn’t happy with it. So the rest of the book had to wait until she was.” Debbie Taylor
Here are some titles of her novels
The Girl with the Polka Dot Dress
The Dressmaker
An Awfully Big Adventure
Every Man for Himself
A Quiet Life
A Weekend with Claude
” I don’t mind working in a bit of clutter. It’s your mind that has to be clear.”
Photographer: Eamonn Mccabe
Carol Balawyder 