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Dressmaker
Beryl Bainbridge
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Description for Dressmaker
Paperback. * This wonderful novel showing Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best - out for the first time as an Abacus paperback Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 142.
'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 Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naïve and withdrawn.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...
Product Details
Publisher
Abacus
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349123707
SKU
V9780349123707
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Beryl Bainbridge
Beryl Bainbridge wrote seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, she won literary awards including the Whitbread Prize and Author of the Year at the British Book Awards. She died in July 2010.
Reviews for Dressmaker
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more