Set among the houseboat community on the Thames, this Booker Prize-winning novel offers a glimpse into the inner workings of an eccentric community. 'Perfectly balanced... the novelistic equivalent of a Turner watercolour' }Washington Post WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FEATURED ON BBC’S BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB Penelope Fitzgerald’s Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames, with an introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.