Offshore

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This is an interesting book with a cast of eccentric and intriguing people who live on houesboats along the Thames, at Battersea Reach. Richard Blake is something of an unofficial leader of the community, and his ex-Navy experience grants him good stead. It is set in the early 1960s and involves a community of disparate people living on boats/barges moored on the Thames at Battersea Reach. penelope fitzgerald's humour is so dry that you could fry an egg on it whilst the characters are so vivid they will hold your soul forever. Do Nenna and the girls go to Canada, and if not, do she and Richard have a chance, or even she and Edward?

She goes to visit Edward at his address in Stoke Newington (42b Milvain Street; there is no such street), believing that he will be unable to resist her love and will come back with her to live on Grace.Hilary Spurling, one of the judges, later said that the panel was unable to decide between A Bend in the River and Darkness Visible, settling on Offshore as a compromise. Fitzgerald actually caused me to develop feelings for these people, as lost and misbegotten as some were.

Their dwelling is determined by something in their characters: 'They aspired towards the Chelsea shore….Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize–winning English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer.