by Margaret Drabble (Author)
When Candida Wilton arrives alone in London, divorced and rejected and without much money, she is filled with a strange sense of excitement. What can happen, at her age, to change her fortunes? How will she adjust to this shabby, violent, yet curiously attractive city? When Candida starts writing her diary, she expects that she will fill it with the small events with which she pads out her empty life, but she has always had a secret belief that despite all she is a lucky person. And she is, in a sense, right, for when an unexpected windfall brings her sudden riches, her horizons broaden: she will start, she thinks, with a trip abroad...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: New
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 05 Jun 2003
ISBN 10: 0141010193
ISBN 13: 9780141010199
Book Overview: Margaret Drabble was awarded a CBE in 1980. She is also the author of The Radiant Way , A Natural Curiosity , The Gates of Ivory and The Peppered Moth .