The Millstone by Margaret Drabble

The Millstone by Margaret Drabble

A celebration of the drama and intensity of the mother-child relationship, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

It is the Swinging Sixties, and Rosamund Stacey is young and inexperienced at a time when sexual liberation is well on its way. She conceals her ignorance beneath a show of independence, and becomes pregnant as a result of a one night stand. Although single parenthood is still not socially acceptable, she chooses to have the baby rather than to seek an illegal abortion, and finds her life transformed by motherhood.

'Rosamund is marvellous, a true Drabble heroine . . . what spirit is here' Sunday Times

'One of our foremost women writers' Guardian

'The novelist who will have done for late twentieth-century London what Dickens did for Victorian London' The New York Times

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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ISBN 13	9780241979174
ISBN 10	024197917X
Title	The Millstone
Author	Margaret Drabble
Series	Penguin Essentials
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2016-08-04
Number of pages	176
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