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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 sublime example of Drabble’s mastery in unravelling the intricacies of intimate relationships’ The Times

‘Humane, intelligent, engrossing’ Independent

‘An important book – entertaining, sad, witty, lively, dense with detail’ Evening Standard

‘The Radiant Way is truly radical’ MARILYNNE ROBINSON, New York Times

‘In Britain, Drabble tells us, ambition and idealism are damned equally. The women survive, detached from the world they were so engaged in a decade earlier. The men do worse . . . Drabble surrounds her chilling message – violent disintegration lurks just under the surface – with all kinds of skilful social detail . . . when she takes off into her own elegant figures and jumps, she puts on quite a show’ LA Times

‘One of the most thought-provoking and intellectually challenging writers around’ Financial Times

‘One of the most versatile and accomplished authors of her generation’ The New Yorker

‘One of our foremost women writers’ Guardian

‘The novels brim with sharply observed life and the author’s seemingly infinite sympathy for “ordinary women”’ JOYCE CAROL OATES, The New Yorker