Beryl Bainbridge – “Master Georgie” (0)

Beryl Bainbridge – “Master Georgie”
The story is set between 1846 and 1854, it tells the story about Cirmean War from the British point of view.
The story has 3 narrators: Myrtle, the adopted sister of George Hardy ; Dr. Potter and Pompey Jones
The main character of the book is of course George Hardy aka. Master Georgie. He is attractive, intelligent and bisexual. He is a surgeon, also, he is an amateur photographer .
There are 3 other main characters :

Myrtle – the adopted sister, who Master Georgie absolutely adores, Myrtle is the only one in the book referring to George Hardy as Master Georgie, she constantly follows him around and never lets him out of her sight

Dr Potter - sententious geologist who eventually marries another of the Hardy children , he, like Hardy is also an intellectual

Pompey Jones – He is a street performer, and also he learns photography from Hardy, as a child he used to steal things from people and return them for a reward
I find it strange , that the book is titled “Master Georgie” because the main character is mostly referred as “Hardy”, “George Hardy” or “Mr Hardy”. Myrtle is the only one calling him “Master Georgie”.
Mr Hardy leaves his affluent lifestyle in Liverpool , where he is heir to a fortune, to go to war at Inkerman in the Crimea. He believes "that the war would at last provide him with the prop he needed." His story is told by Myrtle, Dr Potter and Pompey Jones, who’s lives are changed by a sudden death of Hardy’s father in a brothel in Liverpool in 1846. The 4 characters don’t want to break Hardy’s moms heart so they want the fathers death to seem like he died calmly in his sleep . The following changes Myrtle’s, Dr Potter’s and Jones’s life completely .
“At night all cats are grey ”- Dr Potter
“Likeness is none between us, but we go to the self- same end.”- George Hardy
Hefty –
Elation –
Succumbing –
Navvy –
Utter –
Suture –
Hoarsely –