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Beryl Bainbridge was a British historical fiction author that was best known for her blockbuster historical novels. The author was born in in Liverpool and grew up in a small village near the city. According to the author, she had to endure the mutual incompatibility of sometimes hard-pressed but respectable parents. In earlier years, her father had experienced modest success in shipping and went bankrupt.

However, he still had enough money to send his daughter Beryl to a Hertfordshire boarding school. She studied at the very school where Julie Andrews had gone to study Arts. Beryl proved herself exceptional in drama and went on to have a haphazard career in London and Liverpool, with stints working for several repertory companies. The author had been exposed to films and drama from a very early age and this made her appreciate the written word more than the spoken one.

This would perhaps explain why she would become so obsessed with rhythmic prose and how it needed to sound when spoken out loud. The gorgeously cheek-boned and doe-eyed Beryl Bainbridge had issues with self-esteem and believed herself unattractive. She perhaps developed her impossible romantic perspective of love from the very unhappy marriage of her parents.

In fact, she had said that jealously is a hallmark of love. Following a series of reconciliations and breakups, she finally got married to Austin Davies the painter. He never was a good choice for marriage as his biggest motivation in life was his art rather than human relationships.

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The two lived in the bohemian district in Liverpool where Bainbridge started writing fiction and Davies taught art to impressionable students such as John Lennon. The pair would then divorce in even though Beryl Bainbridge had relationships with several men during and after her marriage. Some of these included the single American urban planner, a German prisoner of war, the married American medical student, the married antique dealer, and the fat physics professor.