Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and
connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames and has a
new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst. On Battersea Reach,
a mixed bag of the temporarily lost and the patently eccentric live on
houseboats, rising and falling with the tide of the Thames.
There is good-natured Maurice, by occupation a male prostitute, by
chance a receiver of stolen goods.
And Richard, an ex-navy man
whose boat, much like its owner, dominates the Reach. Then there is
Nenna, an abandoned wife and mother of two young girls running wild on
the muddy foreshore, whose domestic predicament, as it deepens, will
draw this disparate community together.
Offshore - Penelope Fitzgerald
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