The Millstone

An award-winning novel about the perils of motherhood in a failing healthcare system and a woman's fight against the social stigma of the Sixties

About the author

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 and most recently, the highly acclaimed The Pure Gold Baby. 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.

Summary

An award-winning novel about the perils of motherhood in a failing healthcare system and a woman's fight against the social stigma of the Sixties

Foreword

An award-winning novel about the perils of motherhood in a failing healthcare system and a woman's fight against the social stigma of the Sixties

Additional text

This tale of sexual liberation in the swinging '60s retains its power to provoke

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Drabble, Drabble Margaret
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.06.2022
• EAN: 9781838857134
• ISBN: 978-1-83885-713-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Series: The canons
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary