Awards
1979 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Characters
| Name | Nenna |
| Gender | Female |
| Traits | Mother |
| Married | |
| Name | Martha |
| Gender | Female |
| Genre | Domestic Sociological Fiction |
| Topics | Mothers and daughters Houseboat life River life |
| Setting | Thames River, England Battersea, London, England Houseboat |