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Beryl Bainbridge
Dressmaker [EPUB ebook]
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 1973

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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 Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally na ve and withdrawn.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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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780748125739 ● Publisher Little, Brown Book Group ● Published 2010 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2751853 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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