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The Gates of Ivory by Margaret Drabble
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A woman tries to uncover the mysterious fate of a friend in Cambodia in this "very smart" and suspenseful novel (The New York Times Book Review). Liz Headleand is one of London's best-known and most prominent psychiatrists. One day she arrives at work to find a mysterious package, postmarked from Camb ...Show more
The Ice Age by Margaret Drabble
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Anthony Keating is a middle-aged property developer in Yorkshire in the mid-seventies. Having escaped London s hustle-bustle and survived a heart attack aged just thirty eight, he awaits the return of his lover Alison, who is trying to help her daughter incarcerated in a draconian Eastern bloc country. ...Show more
The Ice Age by Margaret Drabble
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Anthony Keating is a middle-aged property developer in Yorkshire in the mid-seventies. Having escaped London's hustle-bustle and survived a heart attack aged just thirty eight, he awaits the return of his lover Alison, who is trying to help her daughter incarcerated in a draconian Eastern bloc country. ...Show more
The Middle Ground by Margaret Drabble
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A "marvelous" novel about a woman's psychological battle with the realities of midlife (The New York Times Book Review). Witty and endearingly neurotic, Kate Armstrong has hit a certain age--and the crisis that goes along with it. She has a career as a successful journalist, specializing in feminist iss ...Show more
The Needle's Eye by Margaret Drabble
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good - very good
@Simon Camish, an embittered, diffident lawyer in a loveless marriage, would not have particularly noticed Rose Vassiliou had he not been asked to drive her home one night after a dinner party. Yet at one time she had been notorious-her name constantly in the news. @Now, separated from her Greek husband ...Show more
The Oxford Companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble (Editor)
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Oxford Companions Ser.
Sir Paul Harvey's original Oxford Companion to English Literaure, published in 1932, was the book that began Oxford's celebrated Companion series. In its various editions in the half-century since then, it has enjoyed an enormously faithful following and unflagging sales (over 400,000 to date). Now, for ...Show more
The Pattern in the Carpet : A Personal History with Jigsaws by Margaret Drabble
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This is a beautifully written and deeply personal book on the jigsaw puzzle and the part it plays in the puzzle of its distinguished author's life. It is a mix of memoir, jigsaw history and the strange delights of puzzling. James Boswell described the 'innocent soothing relief from melancholy' of playin ...Show more
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
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The Bawtry family has been in South Yorkshire for generations when Bessie is born just before the turn of the last century. The Bawtrys have been content with their humble lot, but Bessie longs for the freedom promised by a new beginning. However, when she succeeds in being admitted to Cambridge and asc ...Show more
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
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In 1912, a child in a Yorkshire mining town studies for the Cambridge entrance exam so she can escape to another life. Decades later Faro, her granddaughter, returns. Faro?s father was the son of refugees who fled European unrest. But for all her exotic ancestry and glamour, has she travelled any furthe ...Show more