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The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
An award-winning novel about the perils of motherhood in a failing healthcare system and a woman's fight against the social stigma of the Sixties.
The Needle's Eye by Margaret Drabble
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
An honest and moving portrait of the everyday messiness of life, and the complications of love.
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Loosely based on Drabble's own experiences, a compelling, beautifully written novel following three generations of women in one family. One hot summer afternoon in South Yorkshire, Faro sits at a lecture on genetic inheritance. She has travelled from London to the Northern mining town where generations ...Show more
The Pure Gold Baby by Margaret Drabble
Category: Fiction
The Pure Gold Babywill raise your spirits and break your heart. Anna is the smiling child with special, unknowable qualities, who also presents profound challenges. And Jess is her charismatic single mother. Over the course of decades, we observe how much Jess loves her surprising daughter, who touches ...Show more
The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The first in a trilogy, this startling novel charts the radical change in Britain during the Eighties through the eyes of three women.
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
Category: Fiction
200 years after being plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea, the Red Queen's ghost decides to set the record straight about her extraordinary existence - and Dr Babs Halliwell, with her own complicated past, is the perfect envoy. Why does the Red Queen pick Babs to keep her story ali ...Show more
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Set between eighteenth century Korea and the present day, The Red Queen is a rich, atmospheric novel about love and what it means to be remembered
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
Category: Fiction
Written in two parts - in the first, an 18th century Korean Queen tells the story of a difficult marriage to the violent Crown Prince. Her ghost narrates the story 200 years later. The second half deals with an academic on a conference who has an affair - and the similarities the women share.
The Sea Lady by Margaret Drabble
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The Sea Lady tells a story of first and last love, of evolution and the ebb and flow of time that gives shape to our lives
The Woodlanders by Margaret (INT) Thomas; Drabble Hardy
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library