Penelope Fitzgerald
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Penelope Mary Fitzgerald was a Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England. In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The
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Offshore (novel)
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Offshore is a 1979 novel by British writer Penelope Fitzgerald. It was the recipient of the 1979 Booker Prize. The book explores the emotional restlessness of houseboat dwellers who live neither fully
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…entitled The Bookshop, stars Emily Mortimer as Florence Green. It was written and directed by Isabel Coixet. Fitzgerald won the 1979 Booker Prize with Offshore, a novel set among houseboat residents in Battersea in 1961. Human Voices (1980) fictionalises wartime life at the BBC, while At Freddie's (1982) depicts…
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