Beryl Bainbridge

Portrays the horrors of war in the story of a group of British soldiers and their adventures in the nineteenth-century Crimean War

A Novel

Master Georgie

Arianna M

I really wanted to like this but I did not. Nothing compelled me. The narrators change throughout, and I didn't particularly want to hear from any of them, except sometimes Dr. Potter. At least it was a fast enough read.
ETA: Despite my low rating, this isn't a "bad" book. It's well written, and dwells on interesting topics—photography being used as a tool of deception, appearances not telling the whole story, class differences, the relationship between life and death, and the senselessness of war. I just did not like it, even though it presents something I love: different (unreliable) narrators each giving their own account of people and situations, from which you can reconstruct your own view of things, deciding who to trust more and whose opinion to disregard. It's a well constructed book, except I didn't enjoy one bit of it.

Master Georgie A Novel

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