Meanwhile she met a Scottish writer, Alan Sharp
, and began a relationship with him, although he remained married (to his second wife) and contiued to have affairs with several women at a time. BB
Health
Beryl Bainbridge
As her marriage was disintegrating, BB
made a suicide attempt by gas oven. She heard people coming into the house, turned off the gas, and felt her action was [q]uite stupid, ludicrous, and unwholesome, like...
Textual Production
Beryl Bainbridge
The title character was said to be based on BB
's lover Alan Sharp
.
Clapp, Susannah. “The Buffalo in the Hall”. London Review of Books, Vol.
39
, No. 1, pp. 9-10.
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Anna Haycraft
, when she saw the first section in draft, insisted that Bainbridge must radically revise it. Choosing...
