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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

‘Drabble’s vision of woman’s fate remains challenging, controversial, relevant and profound’ Elaine Showalter

‘She writes not about exemplary women, but about real ones’ New York Times Review of Books

‘Rosamund is marvellous, a true Drabble heroine . . . what spirit is here’ Sunday Times

‘Wry and witty’ New Republic

‘The novelist who will have done for late twentieth-century London what Dickens did for Victorian London’ New York 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’ 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, New Yorker