Offshore
By: Penelope Fitzgerald ; introduction by Alan Hollinghurst
Contributors: Hollinghurst, Alan, writer of introduction
Edition: Second Mariner Books edition.
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780544361515
Subjects: Mothers and daughters; Barges; Fiction
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 novel.