Margaret Drabble THE PURE GOLD BABY First Edition Signed

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Margaret Drabble THE PURE GOLD BABY First Edition Signed

First edition, first print hardback of THE PURE GOLD BABY by Margaret Drabble, published by Canongate Books Ltd, Edinburgh, in 2013. Signed by Margaret Drabble on the title page.

The book is in very good condition (Clean yellow cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine), with only minor wear to the pictorial dust jacket which is price not clipped (light creasing to the edges). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.

Dame Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of eighteen novels including The Millstone, the trilogy The Radiant Way, A Natural Curiosity (1989) and The Gates of Ivory (1991), along with The Peppered Moth (2000) and The Seven Sisters (2002) and most recently, the highly acclaimed The Pure Gold Baby.

Among her non-fiction works are Arnold Bennett: A biography (1974), The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1985, 2000, editor) and Angus Wilson: A biography (1995). She was awarded a CBE in 1980. She was also awarded the 2011 Golden PEN Award for a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature. Margaret Drabble is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd.

"Anna is a child of special, unknowable qualities. She is a happy child, always willing to smile at the world around her. But she also presents profound challenges. For her mother Jess, still in her early twenties, living alone in North London and hoping to embark on an adventurous career, her arrival will prove life-transforming.

Over the course of decades, in ways large and small, Anna will affect the lives and loves of those around her. While Anna herself will remain largely unaltered by the passing years, she will live through a period of dramatic change, her journey illuminating our shifting attitudes towards motherhood, responsibility and the way we care for one another.

Both personal and political, The Pure Gold Baby is a remarkable portrait of a family, a friendship, and a neighbourhood.It is a novel of great beauty, wisdom and stealthy power by one of our country's foremost and acclaimed writers."

'Extraordinary and intriguing' - SADIE JONES, author of The Outcast

'The Pure Gold Baby is an unexpected gift from a great author. How do we treat the child who walks among us in a different way than most? In Margaret Drabble's hands the answer is with a depth of empathy few master. Fortunately for us, Drabble has spent a lifetime doing just that in exquisitely written prose' - ALICE SEBOLD, author of The Lovely Bones

'Moving and meditative' - MEG WOLITZER, New Yorker

'Superb ... a richly complex narrative voice achieves a choric magnificence hardly equalled in her earlier work' - Stevie Davies, Independent

'Involving and unexpectedly rich . . . a magnificent novel that confirms Drabble's status as a national treasure' - Daily Mail

291 pages.

ISBN: 9781782111092

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