{"product_id":"9780007320967","title":"Offshore by Fitzgerald, Penelope","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Fitzgerald, Penelope\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eLondon, Greater London\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 20 August 2009 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 208 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 129 x 18 | 186g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFEATURED ON BBC'S BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames, with an introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e On Battersea Reach, a mixed bag of the temporarily lost and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the tide of the Thames.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e There is good-natured Maurice, by occupation a male prostitute, by chance a receiver of stolen goods. And Richard, an ex-navy man whose boat, much like its owner, dominates the Reach. Then there is Nenna, an abandoned wife and mother of two young girls running wild on the muddy foreshore, whose domestic predicament, as it deepens, will draw this disparate community together.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Nook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58461941170557,"sku":"9780007320967","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0539\/6525\/8945\/files\/9780007320967.jpg?v=1785508232","url":"https:\/\/www.booknookshop.co.uk\/fr\/products\/9780007320967","provider":"The Book Nook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}