The Dressmaker
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 1973
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Published:2nd Sep '10
£9.99
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* This wonderful novel showing Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best - out for the first time as an Abacus paperback
Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best.
'The book I wish I'd written . . . Witty, chilling, every word in place' Hilary Mantel, Guardian
Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naïve and withdrawn. When she meets Ira, a GI, at a neighbour's party she falls in love as much with the idea of life as a GI bride as with the man himself. But Nellie and Margo are not so blind...
An impressive, haunting book...Like the better Hitchcock films, Beryl Bainbridge suggests a claustrophobic horror * Sunday Times *
A chilly story written by a master hand * The Times *
A little triumph of economy, with pent thoughts and cramped emotions that whisper frantically on when the book is shut * Guardian *
A magnificent book * New York Review of Books *
ISBN: 9780349123707
Dimensions: 196mm x 126mm x 18mm
Weight: 160g
192 pages