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Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald · Booklabria

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Family lifeEngland

Offshore

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First published: 1998
Editions: 7 in 3 languages

Synopsis

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 others is the stuff of this novel.

Subjects: Family life
England
London
Mothers and daughters
823/.914
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Set in: Thames River
Battersea

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7 in 3 languages

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English5 German1 Turkish1

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