Offshore

By Penelope Fitzgerald

Subjects: Barges, Mothers and daughters, fiction, England, fiction, Fiction, general, Pr6056.i86 o34 2014, London (england), fiction, Mothers and daughters--fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, Barges--fiction, 823/.914, Boat living, Mothers and daughters

Description: On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of eccentrics live in houseboats. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they belong to one another. There is Maurice, a homosexual prostitute; Richard, a buttoned-up ex-navy man; but most of all there's Nenna, the struggling mother of two wild little girls. How each of their lives complicates the others is the stuff of this novel.