The Dressmaker (Flamingo S.)

by Beryl Bainbridge

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'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 Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naive and withdrawn.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...

  • ISBN10 0786703229
  • ISBN13 9780786703227
  • Publish Date 3 December 2005 (first published November 1974)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 22 June 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 152
  • Language English