The Dressmaker
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 Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naïve and withdrawn.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...
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Duckworth
- Year
- 2010
- ISBN-13
- 9780748125739
- Genre
- FictionCrime & Thriller
- Topics
- Wartime lifeFamily relationshipsComing of age
Awards
- The Booker PrizeShortlistedMajor(1973)
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