The Seven Sisters (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Margaret Drabble (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2011

  $6.05

  Candida Wilton has been ignored by her husband and children for years, before being displaced by a younger woman. Moving to London, alone, divorced and without much money, it seems she will now enjoy a life only of small pleasures: trips to the gym, visits to her reading group. When she receives an unexpected windfall, Candida gathers together six travelling companions - women friends from childhood, from married life and after - and maps out a journey she has long dreamed of, around Tunis, Naples and Pompeii, where her grey city life can blossom into one of colour and adventure. In The Seven Sisters , Margaret Drabble captures the wonder of second chances with dry wit, honesty and immaculate observation.

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.25

• Used

  Hardcover
  2002

  $3.71

  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...

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $20.07