The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble

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The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble

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The new novel from literary great Margaret Drabble is by turns dark and joyous, hilarious and heartbreaking, and asks us what makes a good life, and a good death

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The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble

NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017: 'masterly' GUARDIAN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: 'An absolute tour de force' Fran may be old but she's not going without a fight. So she dyes her hair, enjoys every glass of red wine, drives restlessly around the country and lives in an insalubrious tower block that her loved ones disapprove of. And as each of them - her pampered ex Claude, old friend Jo, flamboyant son Christopher and earnest daughter Poppet - seeks happiness in their own way, what will the last reckoning be? Will they be waving or drowning when the end comes? By turns joyous and profound, darkly sardonic and moving, The Dark Flood Rises questions what makes a good life, and a good death.
An absolute tour de force -- LINDA GRANT * * Guardian, Best Books of the Year * *
Erudite, beautifully written, funny, tragic * * Daily Mail * *
Masterly * * New York Times, 100 Notable Books of 2017 * *
Darkly witty and exhilarating * * The Times * *
Her distinctive narrative voice and soaring prose remain electrifying * * Telegraph * *
With its echoes of Simone de Beauvoir and Samuel Beckett, this quiet meditation an old age seethes with apocalyptic intent. . Brilliant * * Guardian * *
Masterly, poignant and uplifting * * Mail on Sunday * *
Drabble has pulled off a quietly revolutionary portrait of an age-group whose lives are just as urgent as anyone's but are rarely considered ***** * * Sunday Telegraph * *
Ageing and dying in style . . . Margaret Drabble's sharply drawn characters look back on lives lived and forwards to achieving a good death * * Observer * *
My novel of the year . . . Like a blood transfusion of ideas, feelings -- LINDA GRANT
Dame Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of eighteen novels including A Summer Bird-Cage, The Millstone, The Peppered Moth, The Red Queen, The Sea Lady and most recently, the highly acclaimed The Pure Gold Baby. She has also written biographies, screenplays and was the editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature. She was appointed CBE in 1980, and made DBE in the 2008 Honours list. She was also awarded the 2011 Golden PEN Award for a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature. She is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd.
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ISBN 13 9781782118336
ISBN 10 1782118330
Title The Dark Flood Rises
Author Margaret Drabble
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Canongate Books
Year published 2017-06-01
Number of pages 336
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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