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The novel reflects on a midlife crisis of an estranged candida, when she moves to a. She attended the mount school in york and newnham college, cambridge university. Margaret drabble, english writer of novels that are skillfully modulated variations on the theme of a girls development toward maturity through her experiences of love, marriage, and motherhood. The seven sisters by margaret drabble the independent.
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Review of the seven sisters by margaret drabble n s ford. Her first novel, a summer birdcage 1963, was quickly followed by the publication of the garrick year 1964. Seven characters who all happen to be women eventually find themselves on a classicallyinspired mediterranean journey. But drabbles longtime admirers will cheer to see the author of. At first i wondered where this book was going and it took. The seven sisters is a 1992 novel by british novelist margaret drabble.
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