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 Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naive and withdrawn.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