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The Dressmaker

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2nd September 2010

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780349123707

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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 Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naïve and withdrawn.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…

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New York Review of Books
A magnificent book
Guardian
A little triumph of economy, with pent thoughts and cramped emotions that whisper frantically on when the book is shut
Sunday Times
An impressive, haunting book...Like the better Hitchcock films, Beryl Bainbridge suggests a claustrophobic horror
The Times
A chilly story written by a master hand