num_pages: 400
description: (Sybil Ross has been brought up by her Jewish furrier father and style-obsessed mother to be an empty-headed fashion plate. But on the worst night of Liverpool's blitz she uncovers a secret that leaves her disorientated and eventually leads her to the very edge of America and a final choice)
language: English
title: The Cast Iron Shore
titlecomplete: The Cast Iron Shore
genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Jewish
ratings_count: 138
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: David Higham Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Granta Books