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An Awfully Big Adventure

(1989)
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Awards
1990 Booker Prize (shortlist)

Told with black humour, this is the story of a group of no-hope rep actors in Liverpool in the mid 50s, doing Peter Pan. Stella, the heroine who is Tinkerbell, is a sad and lonely young woman who repeatedly calls the speaking clock for comfort.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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