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The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Dressmaker about?

The mundane and the macabre collide in Beryl Bainbridge’s darkly comic tale about the shockingly unexpected consequences of a young girl’s heartbreak."The book I wish I'd written . . . Witty, chilling, every word in place." - Hilary Mantel, The Guardian Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Seventeen-year-old Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naïve and withdrawn. When she meets Ira, an American soldier, at a neighbour’s party, she falls in love almost as much with the idea of life as a GI bride as with the man himself. But Nellie and Margo are not nearly so blind..."A little triumph of economy, with pent thoughts and cramped emotions that whisper frantically on when the book is shut." - The GuardianDame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge DBE was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often set among the English working classes. Bainbridge won the Whitbread Award twice and was nominated for the Booker Prize five times. In 2008, The Times newspaper named Bainbridge among their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

Who reads The Dressmaker?

Author

Beryl Bainbridge

Publisher

Little, Brown Book Group

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780349123707

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

3.52 / 5 (43 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14