The Dressmaker: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 1973

Product Description 'The book I wish I'd written . . . Witty, chilling, every word in place' Hilary Mantel, GuardianWartime 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 Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naïve and withdrawn.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... Review 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 Book Description Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best. About the Author Beryl Bainbridge was one of the greatest living novelists. Author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television, she was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and won many literary awards including the Whitbread Prize and the Author of the Year Award at the British Book Awards. She died in July 2010.