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 Life (novel) "PT" (Peter Townend) and "Tink" bearing a resemblance to Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew. "The Guardian" wrote "If Winton is an aria, Knox is early Rolling Stones", ""The Life" confirms what "The Literary Review" has known all along – 'Knox is, quite simply, a fabulous writer.'" Christos Tsiolkas, author of the best selling novel "The Slap" wrote ""The Life", is alternately evocative and lacerating, tender and unflinching, a gloriously honest, brutal and moving story of a man who was at the top of his game and then pissed it all away". The Life (novel) The Life is a novel by the Australian