Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In her labyrinthine passageways are played out the last, secret hours of a small group of passengers, their fate sealed in prose of startling, sublime beauty, as Beryl Bainbridge's haunting masterpiece moves inexorably to its known and terrible end.
- '... a wholly new and highly individual work of art... beautifully written' INDEPENDENT
- 'A narrative both sparkling and deep... the cost of raising [the Titanic] is prohibitive
- Bainbridge does the next best thing' SUNDAY TIMES
- 'Bainbridge brings a tragedy and an entire era to vivid life.' THE TIMES
- 'Bainbridge's masterpiece' EVENING STANDARD
- 'Guaranteed to grip you from beginning to end.' MAIL ON SUNDAY
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Published 02/10/1997
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