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The Seven Sisters

Margaret Drabble

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When circumstances compel her to start over late in her life, Candida Wilton moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room, walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London--and begins to pour her soul into a diary. Candida is not exactly destitute. So, is the move perversity, she wonders, a survival test, or is she punishing herself? How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? What can happen, at her age, to change her life?
In a voice that is pitch-perfect, Candida describes her health club, her social circle, and her attempts at risk-taking in her new life. She begins friendships of sorts with other women-widowed, divorced, never married, women straddled between generations. And then there is a surprise pension-fund windfall . . .
A beautifully rendered story, this is Margaret Drabble at her novelistic best.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Harper Perennial
  • Publish Date: Oct 13rd, 2003
  • Pages: 307
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.30in - 0.80in - 0.85lb
  • EAN: 9780156028752
  • Categories: • Literary• Women• Family Life - Marriage & Divorce

About the Author

Drabble, Margaret: -

MARGARET DRABBLE is the author of The Sea Lady, The Seven Sisters, The Peppered Moth, and The Needle's Eye, among other novels. For her contributions to contemporary English literature, she was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2008.

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Praise for this book

PRAISE FOR THE PEPPERED MOTH

"One of the more absorbing novels I have read in a long time, both for its sheer storytelling ability and for its powers of imaginative conjecture."--The New York Times Book Review

"This book fairly bounces. Its zest derives in large part from the perfectly sustained tone, which expresses humor without poking fun, and deep regret without sentimentality."--The Atlantic Monthly

PRAISE FOR THE WITCH OF EXMOOR

"Part social satire, part thriller, and entirely clever."--Elle

"Part mystery, part fairy tale . . . with a wicked, dead-on wit."--People
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