Margaret Drabble
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Reserved and snobbish Candida Wilton, newly divorced and estranged from her daughters, moves from her beautiful home in Suffolk to a small flat in a run-down London neighborhood where she sets out to rediscover her life.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Her promising career in 1960s London interrupted by an affair with a married professor that renders her a single mother, Jessica Speight faces wrenching questions about responsibility, potential, and compassion when her sunny child reveals unique needs.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
The author offers an innovative mix of memoir, jigsaw-puzzle history, and the strange delights of puzzling, with sketches of her family members and her thoughts on the importance of childhood play, art, and writing.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
An archaeologist struggles to unearth her own true passions in the "richest, most absorbing novel" by the author of The Dark Flood Rises (Joyce Carol Oates).
Frances Wingate is one of England's most renowned archaeologists, having recently discovered a lost city in the Saharan desert. On the outside, she appears to have it all. But beneath the surface, the scientist deals with the demands of children and family—as
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A magnificently mordant reckoning with mortality by the great British novelist Margaret Drabble. Francesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives restlessly round England, which is 'her last love'. She wants to 'see it all before she dies'. Amid the professional conferences she attends, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home-cooked dinners to her ex-husband,...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Austen tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen's fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey, Catherine eventually triumphs, blossoming into a discerning woman who learns truths about love, life, and the heady power of literature.