The Dark Flood Rises

Author(s): Margaret Drabble

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Fran may be old but she's not going without a fight. So she dyes her hair, enjoys every glass of red wine, drives restlessly around the country and lives in an insalubrious tower block that her loved ones disapprove of. And as each of them - her pampered ex Claude, old friend Jo, flamboyant son Christopher and earnest daughter Poppet - seeks happiness in their own way, what will the last reckoning be? Will they be waving or drowning when the end comes? By turns joyous and profound, darkly sardonic and moving,The Dark Flood Rises questions what makes a good life, and a good death.


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Dame Margaret Drabble is the author of seventeen highly acclaimed novels. She has also written biographies and 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.

General Fields

  • : 9781925498967
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : September 2017
  • : October 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Margaret Drabble
  • : Paperback