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KL studio classicsDrabble, Margaret
Summary: Receiving the two-hundred-year-old memoir of a Korean crown princess from an anonymous sender, Oxford student Barbara Halliwell reads about the princess's life and finds profound changes occurring within her present-day London home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRADrabble, Margaret
Summary: Traces the lives of three Englishwomen, good friends since Cambridge, as they cope with changes in their world and within themselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1987
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1965
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRADrabble, Margaret
Summary: Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular of jigsaws, which have offered her and many others "a soothing relief" from melancholy and depression. We learn that jigsaws began as dissected maps used as a teaching tool in the late eighteenth century; that the young Queen Victoria once stayed up until 11:30 P.M. assembling a puzzle with her government ministers;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DRABBLE, MARGARET DRADrabble, Margaret
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Drabble 2013Drabble, Margaret
Summary: "A magnificently mordant reckoning with mortality by the great British novelist Francesca Stubbs has a very 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 she attends, she fits in visits to old friends,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DRADrabble, Margaret
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fig Tree 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRADrabble, Margaret
Summary: Divorced and estranged from her grown daughters, Candida Wilton moves to a rundown flat well below her means and finds exhilaration in her self-imposed poverty, during which she confides her thoughts to a computer and makes friends with new peers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002