# The Dressmaker

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- Authors: [Beryl Bainbridge](https://www.bookquiver.com/beryl-bainbridge)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2010-09-02

## Description

'The book I wish I'd written . . . Witty, chilling, every word in place' Hilary Mantel, Guardian Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naïve and withdrawn. When she meets Ira, a GI, at a neighbour's party she falls in love as much with the idea of life as a GI bride as with the man himself. But Nellie and Margo are not so blind...

## Editions

### The Dressmaker

- Publisher: abacus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-4812-573-9
- Published: 2010-09-02
- Language: en_GB

### The Dressmaker

- Publisher: abacus
- ISBN: 978-03-4912-370-7
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2010-09-02
- Language: en_GB