A Summer Bird-Cage
Margaret Drabble
A Summer Bird-Cage
Margaret Drabble
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Witty and compassionate, the extraordinary debut from one of our greatest novelists, about lies and deceit, love and forgiveness
Her bright, insouciant début novel . . . joined the strengths of old-school realism with the playful detachment and blatant mythmaking of postmodernism
Her book . . . has considerable humour, urbanity and intelligence
Praise for Margaret Drabble: One of the most thought-provoking and intellectually challenging writers around
I have learned so much from Margaret Drabble's work. Her prose is very beautiful, very funny, and at the same time very serious. Novels like The Millstone and Jerusalem the Golden have helped me to understand what great writing can be
Margaret Drabble's early novels were intimate and sprightly chronicles of the small dissatisfactions and small triumphs of young women like herself
One of the most versatile and accomplished authors of her generation
She was one of the most assiduous chroniclers of female experience in Britain during that time. Drabble's work has always been characterised by astute social observation
One of the most versatile and accomplished authors of her generation
One of our foremost women writers
Dame Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of nineteen highly acclaimed novels. She has also written biographies, screenplays and was the editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature. She was appointed CBE in 1980, and made DBE in the 2008 Honours list. She was also awarded the 2011 Golden PEN Award for a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature. She is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd.
Her bright, insouciant début novel . . . joined the strengths of old-school realism with the playful detachment and blatant mythmaking of postmodernism
Her book . . . has considerable humour, urbanity and intelligence
Praise for Margaret Drabble: One of the most thought-provoking and intellectually challenging writers around
I have learned so much from Margaret Drabble's work. Her prose is very beautiful, very funny, and at the same time very serious. Novels like The Millstone and Jerusalem the Golden have helped me to understand what great writing can be
Margaret Drabble's early novels were intimate and sprightly chronicles of the small dissatisfactions and small triumphs of young women like herself
One of the most versatile and accomplished authors of her generation
She was one of the most assiduous chroniclers of female experience in Britain during that time. Drabble's work has always been characterised by astute social observation
One of the most versatile and accomplished authors of her generation
One of our foremost women writers
Dame Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of nineteen highly acclaimed novels. She has also written biographies, screenplays and was the editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature. She was appointed CBE in 1980, and made DBE in the 2008 Honours list. She was also awarded the 2011 Golden PEN Award for a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature. She is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd.