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Offshore Author: On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of eccentrics live in houseboats. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they belong to one another. There is Maurice, a homosexual prostitute; Richard, a buttoned-up ex-navy man; but most of all there's Nenna, the struggling mother of two wild little girls. How each of their lives complicates the ot... more »
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I loved this book. The language was very beautiful. I will probably read it again in the future. Nenna's "give" speech is absolutely heart-breaking.
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Booker Prize winning novel
Genres:
- Literature & Fiction >> Women's Fiction >> Mothers & Children
- Literature & Fiction >> Authors, A-Z >> ( F ) >> Fitzgerald, Penelope
- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Literary
- Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> British >> Contemporary
- Gay & Lesbian >> Literature & Fiction >> Fiction >> Gay