A review by gyeng002
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald

5.0

A perfect, beautiful little book that I wish had been at least twice as long--even by the second chapter, I was so caught in this little river-barge world that I had to stop and wonder at Fitzgerald's talent to conjure it up so quickly. There are also such stunning sentences in this book, truly: "...at flood tide, they saw the river as a powerful god, bearded with the white foam of detergents, calling home the twenty-seven lost rivers of London, sighing as the night declined." Tilda was by far my favorite, and reminded me a lot of Pullman's Lyra (especially when she's on the Gyptian boats). Perhaps an homage.