The Dressmaker (Bainbridge novel) 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 an
The Tower (novel) The Tower (novel) The Tower is a 1973 novel by Richard Martin Stern. It is one of the two books drawn upon for the screenplay Stirling Silliphant wrote for the 1974 movie "The Towering Inferno," the other being the 1974 novel "The Glass Inferno" by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson. The story unfolds on the day of the grand opening of the brand-new "World Tower Building" skyscraper in Lower Manhattan, New York City, situated near the World Trade Center Towers in a plaza of its own, a building whose height Stern specifies as 1,527 feet covering a total