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Fran had from an unsuitably early age been attracted by the heroic death, the famous last words, the...

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Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of bei...

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I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope ...

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The middle years caught between children and parents free of neither: the past stretches back too ...

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When nothing is sure everything is possible.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

I actually remember feeling delight at two o'clock in the morning when the baby woke for his feed ...

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Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctua...

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It is to be doubted whether anybody who said good-bye to Bert had any faith or interest whatsoever i...

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What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations ...

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Minor talents or failing talents ask much of those who associate with them. They suck, they cling, t...

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It was easier to ignore the consideration of paternal genes then than it would be now. We did not th...

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The Pure Gold Baby

Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like m...

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The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws

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Margaret Drabble

Novelist

Born: 1939-06-05

Died: N/A

Dame Margaret Drabble DBE (born 5 June 1939) is an English novelist, biographer and literary critic.More