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The Dressmaker
- Author
- Beryl Bainbridge
- Narrator
- Julie Maisey
- Publisher
- Ulverscroft Ltd
- Publish Date
- 15 January 2026
- Run Time
- 4 hours 53 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naïve and withdrawn.
When she meets Ira, a GI, at a neighbour’s party, she falls in love as much with the idea of life as a GI bride as with the man himself. But Nellie and Margo are not so blind…
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Details
- Author
- Beryl Bainbridge
- Narrator
- Julie Maisey
- Duration
- 4 hours 53 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 January 2026
- ISBN
- 9781399195676
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Ulverscroft Ltd
- Genre
- Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Humour, Historical fiction, Second World War fiction
Synopsis
Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naïve and withdrawn. When she meets Ira, a GI, at a neighbour’s party, she falls in love as much with the idea of life as a GI bride as with the man himself. But Nellie and Margo are not so blind…
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