The Dressmaker

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 Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naive and withdrawn.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 neighbour'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 ...

* This wonderful novel showing Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best - out for the first time as an Abacus paperback