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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.
‘This tale of sexual liberation in the swinging ’60s retains its power to provoke’ Observer
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‘Oh no, not really. Oh, I suppose they’re pleased in a way that I did so well, but they think I’m a dilettante, I mean to say, Elizabethan sonnet sequences, it isn’t as though I were even doing nineteenth-century novels or something worthy like that. They wanted me to read Economics at Cambridge, or at least History. They never said so, but I could tell. There’s no moral worth in an Elizabethan sonnet sequence, you know.’
‘They must approve, though, of your independence.’
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