num_pages: 141
description: 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 perfect little novel.
language: English
title: Offshore
titlecomplete: Offshore
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Womens, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, 20th Century, Novella, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 6550
places: London, England
awards: awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: Collins