Books written by Margaret Drabble

The New Abject: Tales of Modern Unease

... Mike Nelson, Paul Theroux, Lara Williams, Gerard Woodward, Sarah Schofield, Christine Poulson, Meave Haughey, Gaia Holmes, Karen Featherstone, Alan Beard, Bernardine Bishop Ra Page, Sarah Eyre ... 'I don't want their money,' I say.
A Love Letter to Europe: An Outpouring of Sadness and Hope - Mary Beard, Shami Chakrabati, Sebastian Faulks, Neil Gaiman,...

With pieces from Frank Cottrell Boyce, Melvyn Bragg, Margaret Drabble, Alan Hollinghurst, Will Hutton, Holly Johnson, Penelope Lively, Jonathan Meades, Deborah Moggach, Alan Moore, Jackie Morris, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Chris Riddle, Tony ...
A Love Letter to Europe: An outpouring of sadness and hope – Mary Beard, Shami Chakrabati, Sebastian Faulks, Neil Gaiman,...

Some are cries of pain. There are hilarious pieces. There are cries of pain and regret. Some pieces are quietly devastating. All are passionate. Conceived as a love letter to Europe, this book may also help reawaken love for Britain.
The New Abject: Tales of Modern Unease

Something has fallen away. We have lost a part of ourselves, our history, what we once were. That something, when we encounter it again, look it straight in the eyes, disgusts us, makes us retch. This is the horror of the abject.
A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories

I parked in the car park at the Weir, and bought myself a bottle of water in the little shop. I would take my knapsack and some money and a toothbrush, for it occurred to me that if I wanted I could walk on to Lynton and the haunted ...
The Witch of Exmoor

... towards the Isles of the Unimagined, until kingdom come. Maybe one of them will get it right this time. 'Jump for it!' cries Emily Palmer, as the tide comes in. And Benjamin D'Anger jumps. January 1906 Porlock Weir 281.
The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws

In 1989, I bought a house at Porlock Weir, which was even further west. She had parted with her car and was no longer driving, so I used to go to collect her and her little white dog for her annual holiday. I drove north from London up ...
The Middle Ground: A Novel

With her “unfailing insight and intelligence,” Margaret Drabble shows us a woman alone in London for the first time in years—slowly rediscovering herself in a city on the brink of great change (The New York Times).
The Pure Gold Baby: A Novel

Told from the point of view of Jess’s fellow mothers, this is a movingly intimate look at the unexpected transformations at the heart of motherhood. “How do we treat the child who walks among us in a different way than most?
The Millstone

The story of an upper-middle-class unwed mother in 1960s London, from a novelist who is “often as meticulous as Jane Austen and as deadly as Evelyn Waugh” (Los Angeles Times).
The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws

And she does so with her customary intelligence, energy, and wit. This is a journey like no other. "Unlike anything else in the bookstore." Christian Science Monitor "Fascinating.
The Witch of Exmoor

Frieda, the peculiar matriarch of the Palmer family, makes her family wonder what escapade she will think of next and whether her foreign grandson will inherit all her money or if the sinister atmosphere of Exmoor has caused her to lose her ...
The Peppered Moth

What power do we have to reinvent ourselves? Do family and tradition bind us to a destiny beyond our will? Abounding with lively characters and subversive wit, this is Margaret Drabble at her best.
The Realms of Gold: A Novel

It’s only when Frances throws herself into her work that she discovers some surprising connections to others, in this novel about the search for meaning in life that is “alive with ideas” (Anatole Broyard, The New York Times).
The Garrick Year: A Novel

Narrated by a complicated, fascinating, and fiercely intelligent woman at the end of her rope, The Garrick Year is “a witty, beautiful novel . . . written with extraordinary art” (The New York Times). “[A] romantic novel about actors ...
The Radiant Way

In this story, "rich, various, many tentacled, chockful of life" (Margaret Atwood, Ms.), Margaret Drabble shows us a rapidly changing world from these three rich and vastly different vantage points, and the friendship that holds them all ...
The Dark Flood Rises: A Novel

Though The Dark Flood Rises delivers the pleasures of a traditional novel, it is clearly situated in the precarious present. Margaret Drabble’s latest enthralls, entertains, and asks existential questions in equal measure.
A Summer Bird-Cage

With Margaret Drabble’s signature eye for the subtleties and intricacies of everyday life, A Summer Bird-Cage is captivating, a dazzling, resonant portrait of two young women struggling to find their footing in a city as fickle as it is ...
The Gates of Ivory: A Novel

In this thrilling novel, Margaret Drabble continues the trilogy she began in The Radiant Way and A Natural Curiosity, taking us far from the civilized, familiar streets of London, and painting an “urgent, brilliant” portrait of the ...
The Sea Lady: A Late Romance

Advance Praise for "The Sea Lady " It is a pleasure to read "The Sea Lady" and find again the canny, cagey, unfooled, intransigent author of The Needle s Eye Drabble s generous and unsentimental truthfulness to the condition of childhood is ...