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When Candida Wilton arrives alone in London, divorced and rejected and without much money, she is filled with a strange sense of excitement. What can happen, at her age, to change her fortunes? How will she adjust to this shabby, violent, yet curiously attractive city? When Candida starts writing her diary, she expects that she will fill it with the small events with which she pads out her empty life, but she has always had a secret belief that despite all she is a lucky person. And she is, in a sense, right, for when an unexpected windfall brings her sudden riches, her horizons broaden: she will start, she thinks, with a trip abroad...
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Recently divorced from her husband and alienated from her three grown daughters, Candida Wilton is seeking a fresh start late in her life. She moves from a beautiful Georgian house in Suffolk to a two-room flat in a run-down building in London and begins to pour her soul into a diary. In pitch-perfect voice, Candida describes her health club, her social circle, and her attempts at taking risks in her new life. Candida is not exactly destitute, so she wonders if the move is some sort of perverse survival test-or is she just punishing herself? How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? What can happen, at her age, to change her life?
"With humor, compassion and ironic detachment, Margaret Drabble has created a memorable portrait."-Chicago Tribune
"Over the years, Drabble has created an impressive oeuvre. . . . Focusing now on the inconstancies and richness of the aging life, she has again shepherded to the page a fertile muse." -Los Angeles Times
Recently divorced from her husband and alienated from her three grown daughters, Candida Wilton is seeking a fresh start late in her life. She moves from a beautiful Georgian house in Suffolk to a two-room flat in a run-down building in London and begins to pour her soul into a diary. In pitch-perfect voice, Candida describes her health club, her social circle, and her attempts at taking risks in her new life. Candida is not exactly destitute, so she wonders if the move is some sort of perverse survival test-or is she just punishing herself? How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? What can happen, at her age, to change her life?
"With humor, compassion and ironic detachment, Margaret Drabble has created a memorable portrait."-Chicago Tribune
"Over the years, Drabble has created an impressive oeuvre. . . . Focusing now on the inconstancies and richness of the aging life, she has again shepherded to the page a fertile muse." -Los Angeles Times
MARGARET DRABBLE's novels include The Peppered Moth, The Witch of Exmoor, The Millstone, and The Ice Age. She is also the editor of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. She lives in London.
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- Publication date2003
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- ISBN 13 9780141013718
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