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The
2004 Award
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The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Candida
Wilton arrives in London, alone, divorced and without much money. Yet she
is strangely excited: what might happen to her now in her final years? Prepared
to fill her empty life with little events and pleasures - trips to the gym,
visits to her reading group - she finds her horizons broadened by an unexpected
windfall. Gathering together six travelling companions - women friends from childhood, from married life and after - Candida maps out the journey she has long dreamed of: to Tunis, Naples and Pompeii. Perhaps, she wonders, we can make anything happen if only we have the nerve… |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Margaret
Drabble was
born in Sheffield, England, in 1939 and educated at Newnham College, Cambridge.
She was awarded the CBE in 1980. Her many novels include: A Summer
Bird-Cage (1963); The Garrick Year (1964); The
Millstone (1965); Jerusalem the Golden (1967); The
Waterfall (1969); The Needle's Eye (1972); The
Realms of Gold (1975); The Ice Age (1977); The
Middle Ground (1980); The Radiant Way (1987);
A Natural Curiosity (1989); The Gates of Ivory
(1991); The Witch of Exmoor (1996); The Peppered Moth
(2001) and The Seven Sisters (2002). Among her non-fiction
works are Arnold Bennett: A Biography (1974), The Genius
of Thomas Hardy (editor 1976), The Oxford Companion to English
Literature (editor 1985; revised, 2000) and Angus Wilson:
A Biography (1995). Margaret Drabble is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd and lives in London. |
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