The Gates of Ivory

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Margaret Drabble. The Gates of Ivory

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Dame Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of eighteen novels including A Summer Bird-Cage, The Millstone, The Peppered Moth, The Red Queen, The Sea Lady, The Pure Gold Baby and most recently, the highly acclaimed The Dark Flood Rises. 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.

‘A compelling voyage into the heart of darkness’

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Piquant little sauces cluster in shallow vessels. Green herbs float in a watery pool. The aroma of lemon grass rises.

‘Uncle Mort give me much ice-cream.’ She shakes her head, pulls a slight face. ‘I did not so much like the ice-cream. But he kind man, he nice man, he good to auntie. She good to him. Auntie, Uncle Mort and me, we sit in bed and eat ice-cream. His face red. Big and red. Whiskers, also. He was from Idaho. I-da-ho. He tell us many stories about Idaho. In bed with ice-cream.’

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