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Another boat is owned by the responsible Richard, married to Laura who wants to move to solid ground. In spite of the doomed Romances all round: Laura leaves Richard, Louise whisks her sister back to Canada, Heinrich and Martha, enjoy a tender burgeoning of teenage love for a single day - there is so much more to this bubbling, fantastic, witty, wee book - than mere romance.

None of the characters have to do what they are doing; Willis could well do the repairs necessitated by the condition of his boat. It was inspired by the most difficult years of Fitzgerald's own life, years during which she lived on an old Thames sailing barge moored at Battersea Reach.As soon as he is convalescent, Laura carries him off to the house she always wanted them to live in. 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. This vital ability may be the feminine counterpart to Nenna's claimed deficiencies-of-gender, such as being unable to fold a map.

Set in 1961, the novel follows an eccentric community of houseboat owners whose permanently moored craft cluster together along the unsalubrious bank of the River Thames at Battersea Reach, London. There is one character who made this book work for me, and it is Nenna’s 6-year old daughter, Tilda. Willis, a naval artist who has never been to sea, is hoping to sell his boat The Dreadnought before she inevitably sinks.The resulting uncertainty as to whether she was coming or going had made her, to some extent, mentally unstable.

Some, maybe all of the characters were fragmentary, but the focus is on Nenna and her two daughters.

She had a lot of wild experiences to draw on; she was one of those late starters, producing most of her cultish novels as an aging widow.

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