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A portrait of a troubled middle-class family: from the eccentric grandmother who gives up everything to go and live in a ruin on Exmoor, to her successful but anxious children (lawyers, politicians and advertising men) and the drug-taking grandchildren.
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Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield, England, in 1939, and studied English at Cambridge University. Her novels include The Radiant Way, A Natural Curiosity, The Gates of Ivory, The Witch of Exmoor, The Peppered Moth, and, most recently, The Seven Sisters. Among her non-fiction works are Arnold Bennett: A Biography, A Writer's Britain, and Angus Wilson: A Biography. She is also the editor of The Oxford Companion to English Literature.
Margaret Drabble has three children and is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd. She lives in London, England.
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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
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