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Beryl Bainbridge (1932-2010) wrote eighteen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. Five of her novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Every Man for Himself and Injury Time won the Whitbread Prize, The Bottle Factory Outing won the Guardian Fiction Prize and Master Georgie won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Four of her novels including An Awfully Big Adventure were adapted for film. In 2011, Bainbridge was honoured posthumously with a special Best of Beryl Man Booker Prize in recognition of her outstanding career. Her final novel, The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress, was published in 2011.An extremely original and disconcerting story
Daily Telegraph
A sharp, chilling novel . . . The ending has real shock effect
Sunday Times
Compelling, horrifying, dramatic . . . [a] Molotov cocktail of teenage insecurity and dangerously partial understanding of maturity
Evening Standard
<i>Harriet Said</i> ... is a highly plotted horror tale that turns the "Obstinate Questionings" of puberty into deadly weapons
- Gail Godwin, New York Times
A chilling novel of sheer horror
Publishers Weekly
Strange and terrifying
Denver Post
An expertly conceived and consummated horror story . . . The author has made it seem as likely as it is unnatural and insidious
Kirkus Reviews
Chilling, exciting . . . remarkably convincing
Washington PostBook World
An extremely original and disconcerting story
Daily Telegraph
A sharp, chilling novel . . . The ending has real shock effect
Sunday Times
Compelling, horrifying, dramatic . . . [a] Molotov cocktail of teenage insecurity and dangerously partial understanding of maturity
Evening Standard