TY - BOOK AU - Penelope Fitzgerald TI - Offshore SN - 9780395478042 AV - PR6056.I86 U1 - 823.914 PB - Mariner Books KW - Literary Fiction N2 - On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of eccentrics live in houseboats. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they belong to one another. There is Maurice, a homosexual prostitute; Richard, a buttoned-up ex-navy man; but most of all there's Nenna, the struggling mother of two wild little girls. How each of their lives complicates the others is the stuff of this perfect little novel ER -