The Dressmaker
Published on 25. September 2025
254 pages
978-1-917092-47-0 (ISBN)
Description
'The book I wish I'd written . . . Witty, chilling, every word in place.' Hilary Mantel
Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and munitions factories. Seventeen-year-old Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naïve and withdrawn. When she meets Ira, an American soldier, at a neighbour's party, she falls in love almost as much with the idea of life as a GI bride as with the man himself. Where Liverpool is grim and impoverished, America is gay and rich - Rita knows; she's seen it in the movies. But Nellie and Margo are not nearly so blind . . .
Shortlisted for the 1973 Booker Prize, The Dressmaker is a darkly comic tale about the unexpected consequences of a young girl's heartbreak.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
0,49 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-917092-47-0 (9781917092470)
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Beryl Bainbridge was the author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and among other awards, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Novel of the Year and the Guardian Fiction Prize. She died in 2010.
