Margaret Drabble

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1) The pure gold baby

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Her promising career in 1960s London interrupted by an affair with a married professor that renders her a single mother, Jessica Speight faces wrenching questions about responsibility, potential, and compassion when her sunny child reveals unique needs.

2) The realms of gold

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Drabble, Margaret

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An archaeologist struggles to unearth her own true passions in the "richest, most absorbing novel" by the author of The Dark Flood Rises (Joyce Carol Oates).

Frances Wingate is one of England's most renowned archaeologists, having recently discovered a lost city in the Saharan desert. On the outside, she appears to have it all. But beneath the surface, the scientist deals with the demands of children and family—as

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3) The pattern in the carpet: a personal history with jigsaws

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Drabble, Margaret

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The author offers an innovative mix of memoir, jigsaw-puzzle history, and the strange delights of puzzling, with sketches of her family members and her thoughts on the importance of childhood play, art, and writing.

4) The sea lady: a late romance

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Drabble, Margaret

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Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman, childhood friends, finds themselves reviewing their lives when they return to their home to receive honorary degrees from a new university.

5) The dark flood rises

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Drabble, Margaret

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Francesca Stubbs has an extremely full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives "restlessly round England," which is "her last love . . . She wants to see it all before she dies." Amid the professional conferences that dominate her schedule, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home cooked dinners to her ailing ex-husband, texts her son, who is grieving over the shocking death of his...