An Awfully Big Adventure Author:Beryl Bainbridge This provocative and compelling novel by one of Britain's leading writers tells the darkly humorous tale of Stella, a star-struck, teenaged actress caught in the backstage intrigue of a 1950's Liverpool theatre repertory company. Stella romances the director of a production of Peter Pan with consequences that would be uproariously funny if they ... more »were not so dire.The play becomes a metaphor for the darker side of youth as Stella is drawn very adult mayhem.« less