A Summer Bird-cage

ISBN: 9780140026344
Author: Margaret Drabble
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Two sisters: beautiful, sophisticated Louise and attractive, witty and intelligent Sarah who has always felt left behind. Then Louise marries the wealthy but unappealing novelist Stephen Halifax, and Sarah, recently graduated from Oxford, is thrown back into family affairs. As Louise enters a high-profile world of glamour, parties and gossip columns, Sarah, drifting in London with her degree and new-found freedom, is only allowed glimpses into this new alien life. However, as the cracks begin to show in Louise's marriage and rumours of infidelity spread, Sarah discovers that, beneath her cool exterior, her sister is not quite the person she thought she was.

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The Needle's EyeLondon: Book Club, 1973. Margaret Drabble's novel about barrister, Simon Cavendish, and his involvement with Rose Vassiliou, a woman of remarkable integrity, into whose affairs he is drawn when her husband takes lega...
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The Oxford Companion To English LiteratureIndispensible for the literary minded, invaluable for crossword freaks, the "Companion" is above all a book to be browsed in and enjoyed - The Economist
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The Millstone - A Touch Of LoveAt first Rosamund seems to be similar to one of the new women Miss Drabble has already so coolly exposed in The Garrick Year and The Summer Bird-Cage. She is self-confident and self-contained-- but articulate. Devastatin...
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