Description
Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel plunges into the unique community of houseboaters moored along the Thames in the shadow of Battersea Power Station. The story centers on Nenna, an expat Canadian struggling to convince her husband to join her and their daughters on their unseaworthy vessel, highlighting the precariousness of their existence. Through a cast of memorable characters, including a former navy man, a male prostitute, and a maritime artist, Fitzgerald masterfully evokes the "in-between-ness" of life on the water, where inhabitants are neither fully land-bound nor truly free to roam. This poignant and sharply observed novel explores themes of belonging, domesticity, and the quiet desperation of those living on the fringes.
Available Editions
hardcover
Everyman's Library
Published Sep 23, 2003
480 pages
ISBN: 9781400041251
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First Published
1979
Language
eng
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