Radio 4’s adaptation of novel Offshore is marvellously layered
A tragi-comical story set among the houseboat community beyond Battersea in the 1960s.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
A tragi-comical story set among the houseboat community beyond Battersea in the 1960s.
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