The Witch of Exmoor (Harvest Book) - Softcover

Drabble, Dame Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156006049 ISBN 13: 9780156006040

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1998

Synopsis

In a "profoundly moving, intellectually acute" novel (Philadelphia Inquirer) that is "as meticulous as Jane Austen, as deadly as Evelyn Waugh" (Los Angeles Times), Margaret Drabble conjures up a retired writer besieged by her three grasping children in this dazzling, wickedly gothic tale.

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About the Author:

MARGARET DRABBLE is the author of The Sea Lady, The Seven Sisters, The Peppered Moth, and The Needle's Eye, among other novels. For her contributions to contemporary English literature, she was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2008.

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tured, astutely observed, scathingly funny exploration of an extended British family which reveals every layer and nuance of the complex society that is Britain today.

It is a midsummer’s evening in Hampshire, deep in the country, and the three grown Palmer children – Daniel, Gogo, Rosemary – their partners, and children are coming to the end of an enjoyable meal. From this pleasant vantage point they play a dinner-party game: what kind of society would you be willing to accept if you didn’t know your place in it? But the abstract question of justice, like all their family conversations, is brought back to the pressing problem of their eccentric mother, Frieda, the famous writer, who has abandoned them and her old life and gone off to live alone in Exmoor.

Frieda has always been a powerful and puzzling figure, a monster mother with a mysterious past. What is she plotting against them now? Has some inconvenient form of political correctness led her to f

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0156006049
• ISBN 13: 9780156006040
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264