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A review by helen
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
4.0
Penelope Fitzgerald's prose is precise and understated and she packs so much in to 140 pages.
She draws on her real life experience of living on a barge moored on the Thames in the 1960s to give us a series of vignettes about a small independent community of flawed and likeable people.
It's a charming, funny and sad story about things falling apart (literally in the case of one barge). The humour is sometimes cutting but never cruel.
She draws on her real life experience of living on a barge moored on the Thames in the 1960s to give us a series of vignettes about a small independent community of flawed and likeable people.
It's a charming, funny and sad story about things falling apart (literally in the case of one barge). The humour is sometimes cutting but never cruel.
Favourite quote:
"Nenna was thirty-two, an age by which if a blonde woman's hair hasn't turned dark, it never will."