num_pages: 190
description: The highly acclaimed New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 1998 and Booker Prize Nominee that reinvents the historical novel.A misadventure in a brothel links the destiny of the enigmatic George Hardy, a surgeon and amateur photographer, to a foundling who becomes his obsessively devoted maid, a wily street boy who takes advantage of his sexual ambiguity, and his alternately philosophical and libidinous brother-in-law in this terse, searing novel that takes them from the comfortable parlors of Victorian Liverpool to the horrific battlefields of the Crimean War.
language: English
title: Master Georgie
titlecomplete: Master Georgie
genres: Classics, British Literature, Historical, Novels, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 2255
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: WH Smith Literary Award, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in South Asia and Europe
publisher: Carroll & Graf