num_pages: 197
description: It is 1950 and Stella has been taken on as assistant stage manager for a Liverpool rep company. She quickly becomes obsessed with their dissolute director, but when the celebrated O'Hara arrives to take the lead, a different drama unfolds. He and Stella are bound in a past neither dares interpret.
language: English
title: An Awfully Big Adventure
titlecomplete: An Awfully Big Adventure
genres: Theatre, British Literature, Classics, Contemporary, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Coming Of Age, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1191
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: Abacus