The Dressmaker

Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naïve and withdrawn. When she meets Ira, a GI, at a neighbour’s party, she falls in love as much with the idea of life as a GI bride as with the man himself. But Nellie and Margo are not so blind… Author - Beryl Bainbridge. Narrator - Julie Maisey. Published Date - Thursday, 15 January 2026. Copyright - © 1974 The Estate of Beryl Bainbridge ©.