A comienzos de los años sesenta, después de un relajado año sabático en París al término de sus estudios en Oxford, Sarah vuelve a casa de sus padres, en Warwickshire, para celebrar la boda de su hermana mayor...
Francesca Stubbs pasa de los setenta, pero aún goza de salud, y aunque hace tiempo que debería estar jubilada, trabaja gustosa para una institución benéfica que ofrece asistencia a ancianos que se enfrentan a penurias de todo...
Esposas sin maridos, madres y hermanas, mujeres que se debaten entre la vocación artística y las exigencias familiares. Amor no consumado, vanidad, y soledad. El poderoso universo ficcional de Margaret Drabble se concentra en estos trece...
Jessica Speight es una joven talentosa que estudia Antropología en el Londres de los años sesenta, pero cualquier previsión sobre su futuro se ve seriamente comprometida cuando, fruto de una relación con un profesor casado,...
El título de La piedra de moler es una cita del Evangelio (Mateo, 18, 6), el símbolo de una pesada carga. La protagonista de esta novela, una joven brillante que prepara su doctorado sobre el soneto isabelino en el swinging London...
Anna is a child of special, unknowable qualities. She is happy, always willing to smile at the world around her, but she also presents profound challenges. For her mother Jess, still in her early 20s, her arrival will prove life-transforming. Over the...
Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from across four decades, she examines the intense private worlds and passions of everyday people.
Margaret Drabble's novels have illuminated the past fifty years, especially the changing lives of women, like no others. Yet her short fiction has its own unique brilliance. Her penetrating evocations of character and place, her wide-ranging curiosity,...
A celebration of the drama and intensity of the mother-child relationship Margaret Drabbleâs The Millstone won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1965.
The most recent novel by Margaret Drabble, The Sea Lady tells a story of first and last love, of evolution and the ebb and flow of time that gives shape to our lives.
Candida Wilton-a woman recently betrayed, rejected, divorced, and alienated from her three grown daughters-moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London. Candida is not exactly...
"Rosamund Stacey finds herself pregnant after her only sexual encounter. Despite her fierce independence and academic brilliance, Rosamund is naive and unworldly, and the choices before her are terrifying."--Back cover