Offshore
Penelope Fitzgerald / Mar 04, 2021
Offshore On the Battersea Reach of the Thames a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable the temporarily lost and the patently eccentric live on houseboats rising and falling with the great river s tides Bel

On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the great river s tides Belonging to neither land nor sea, they cling to one another in a motley yet kindly society There is Maurice, by occupation a male prostitute, by happenstance a receiver of stoOn the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the great river s tides Belonging to neither land nor sea, they cling to one another in a motley yet kindly society There is Maurice, by occupation a male prostitute, by happenstance a receiver of stolen goods And Richard, a buttoned up ex navy man whose boat dominates the Reach Then there is Nenna, a faithful but abandoned wife, the diffident mother of two young girls running wild on the waterfront streets.It is Nenna s domestic predicament that, as it deepens, draws the relations among this scrubby community together into ever complex and comic patterns.An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here
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Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald was an English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer In 2008, The Times included her in a list of The 50 greatest British writers since 1945 In 2012, The Observer named her final novel, The Blue Flower, as one of the ten best historical novels Fitzgerald was the author of nine novels Her novel Offshore was the winner of the Booker Prize A further three novels The Bookshop, The Beginning of Spring and The Gate of Angels also made the shortlist.She was educated at Wycombe Abbey and Somerville College, Oxford university, from which she graduated in 1938 with a congratulatory First.