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Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald

3.0

This was the first novel by Penelope Fitzgerald I have read and as a winner of the Booker prize, I had to check it out. I enjoyed the writing style enormously, it is about a cast of characters that live on the Battersea Reach on the Thames. This includes Maurice a male prostitute, Richard and Laura (the only ones with any money) and Nenna and her two children Martha and Tilda who I absolutely loved. Wise beyond their years the two children often miss school to rummage around in the mud for treasures to sell as antiques. The only problem I have with this novel is the ending - why so abrupt?!