Henley-on-Thames
£9.99
Set in Liverpool during World War Two, The Dressmaker tells the story of Rita and her affair with an American G.I. Her aunts are sure he’s feckless and are determined to prevent him from taking Rita back to the USA which is her chance to start a new life.
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Publish Date: 02/09/2010‘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 Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naïve and withdrawn.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…
| Weight | 160 g |
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| Dimensions | 196 × 126 × 18 mm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 183 |
| Language | English |
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| Dewey | 823.914 (edition:22) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
