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The Dressmaker

by Beryl Bainbridge (1973)

About this book

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 Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naive and withdrawn.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 neoghbour's party she falls in love almost as much with the idea of life as a GI bride as with the man himself. But Nellie and Margo are not so blind...

Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraLate 20th Century
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters

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