Beryl Bainbridge
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"Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge" Order of the British Empire/DBE was an English writer from Liverpool. She was primarily known for her works of psychological novel/psychological fiction, often set among the English working classes. Bainbridge won the Costa Book Awards/Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 Whitbread Awards/1977 and 1996 Whitbread Awards/1996; she was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. She was described in 2007 as "a national treasure". In 2008, The Times newspaper named Bainbridge among their list of "The 50 greatest British literature/British writers since 1945".

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When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

Oh, I made her, ... When I couldn't get reception on the television, I had to have something to hold up the aerial.

It's all changed now, which is why it mattered to those young men from Liverpool that they should be there to support their team.