The Seven Sisters (Penguin Modern Classics)

The Seven Sisters (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Margaret Drabble (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 03 Nov 2011

ISBN 10: 0141197293
ISBN 13: 9780141197296

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Author Bio
Margaret Drabble was born in 1939 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, the daughter of barrister and novelist John F. Drabble, and sister of novelist A.S. Byatt. She is the author of seventeen novels and eight works of non-fiction, including biographies of Arnold Bennett and Angus Wilson. In 1980, Margaret Drabble was made a CBE and in 2008 she was made DBE. She is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd, and lives in London and Somerset.