num_pages: 152
description: If Liverpool in 1944 was grim for Rita and her aunts Nellie and Margo, Rita knew that life in America was gay and rich - she'd seen it in the movies. So when a GI came to call, she was sure that love and escape would follow. But Nellie knew different - the boy would have to go.
language: English
title: The dressmaker
titlecomplete: The dressmaker
genres: Classics, British Literature, World War II, Novels, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 710
awards: awardedAt: 94723200000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd