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A young woman with very little knowledge of life finds she is pregnant after her first sexual encounter, but she decides to bring up the child, and in the helplessness of her baby she finds unexpected joy and fulfilment. From the author of THE GARRICK YEAR, THE GATES OF IVORY and THE MIDDLE GROUND.
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Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling.
The 1960s was the decade of social revolution, anti-war protests, liberal reforms, civil rights and psychedelia. Skirts got shorter and hair got longer, London swung, the Berlin Wall went up, a man walked on the moon, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones reigned and England even won the world cup.
Margaret Drabble's The Millstone was published in 1965. Set in a London not yet quite swinging, where sexual liberation is still on its way, this prize-winning novel follows the progress of Rosamund Stacey, who becomes pregnant as a result of a one night stand, and must adapt to life as a single mother - finding herself transformed in the process.
With a new introduction by Elaine Showalter
Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and read English at Cambridge. She was awarded a DBE in 2008. Since the 1960s she has written 17 novels - The Millstone was her third - and she has also edited two editions of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. She is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd.
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- PublisherWeidenfeld & Nicolson
- Publication date1965
- ISBN 10 0297178814
- ISBN 13 9780297178811
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages200
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