The Dressmaker (Bainbridge novel) role. The Dressmaker (Bainbridge novel) The Dressmaker (US title The Secret Glass) is a gothic psychological novel written by Beryl Bainbridge. In 1973, it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Like many of Bainbridge's earlier works, the novel is semi-autobiographical. In particular, the story was inspired by a relationship that she had with a soldier as a teenager. The characters of Nellie and Margo were based upon two of her paternal aunts. Set in Liverpool and Lancashire during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (novel) Described as "the first black nationalist novel", "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" is also regarded as having inspired the "Blaxploitation" genre of films in the 1970s. It was announced in August 2018 that Lee Daniels Entertainment had secured an option on "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" to develop it as the basis of a series with Fox 21 Television Studios. The Spook Who Sat by the Door (novel) The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1969), by Sam Greenlee, is the fictional story of Dan Freeman, the first black CIA officer, and of the CIA's history