Bøger af Margaret Drabble

Bessie Bawtry bliver født i en lille mineby i Yorkshire i England i starten af det tyvende århundrede. Hendes forældre er jævne mennesker, der aldrig har overvejet, om deres liv kunne eller burde være anderledes, end det er. Bessie er usædvanligt velbegavet, og det går hurtigt op for hende, at hun ikke er skabt til et liv i den lille landsby. Hun kæmper sig vej til universitetet i Cambridge, mens hendes forældre spørger sig selv, om hun virkelig kan være deres barn, når hun er så anderledes.Næsten hundrede år senere kommer Bessies barnebarn Faro til byen for at undersøge sin familiehistorie. Også hun er helt anderledes end byens beboere, og alligevel føler hun et bånd til sine fjerne slægtninge – dem, der blev tilbage, da Bessie forlod byen for sit nye liv.Margaret Drabbles slægtsroman "Stækkede vinger" undersøger temaer som dna, skæbne, determinisme, arv og familie. Samtidig tegner romanen stærke portrætter af Bawtry-familien og England i det tyvende århundrede.Margaret Drabble (f. 1939) er en engelsk forfatter og samfundskritiker, der har vundet en lang række priser for sin litteratur. Endvidere er Margaret Drabble blevet udnævnt som "Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire" i 2008. Margaret Drabble debuterede som forfatter i 1963 med romanen "A Summer Bird-Cage", og sidenhen er det blevet til en lang række anmelderroste romaner.

Da den yderst excentriske og ekstremt velhavende forfatterinde Frieda Haxby flytter ud på heden i Exmoor, har hendes voksne, og helt igennem almindelige, børn svært ved at forstå og acceptere det. De beslutter sig for at "frelse" hende, men den beslutning kommer til at få store konsekvenser for deres egne liv.Margaret Drabble (f. 1939) er en engelsk forfatter og samfundskritiker, der har vundet en lang række priser for sin litteratur. Endvidere er Margaret Drabble blevet udnævnt som "Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire" i 2008. Margaret Drabble debuterede som forfatter i 1963 med romanen "A Summer Bird-Cage", og sidenhen er det blevet til en lang række anmelderroste romaner.

Selvom Candida Wilton er glad for at være sluppet af med sin ægtemand, så har selvtilliden fået et hak, efter han forlod hende for en yngre kvinde. Nu hvor hun er fraskilt og midaldrende, går det op for hende, hvor tomt hendes liv er. Hun beslutter sig for at flytte til London og tage kontakt til gamle veninder. Med disse seks "søstre" fra hendes barndom, ungdom og nutid begynder hun at udleve de drømme, der blev ignoreret under hendes ægteskab. Blandt andet bliver et livslangt ønske om at se Tunis, Napoli og Pompeji pludselig taget alvorligt.Margaret Drabble (f. 1939) er en engelsk forfatter og samfundskritiker, der har vundet en lang række priser for sin litteratur. Endvidere er Margaret Drabble blevet udnævnt som "Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire" i 2008. Margaret Drabble debuterede som forfatter i 1963 med romanen "A Summer Bird-Cage", og sidenhen er det blevet til en lang række anmelderroste romaner.

Den 28-årige Jane Gray er alene i sit hjem, forladt af sin mand og temmelig desillusioneret. Alligevel forelsker hun sig i sin kusine Lucys mand med en sådan heftighed, at alt andet bliver ligegyldigt. Deres fælles hemmelige verden, som gemmer sig bag løgne og antydninger, bliver mere sand end virkeligheden, men hvis de giver sig til at handle på det, risikerer de, at hele drømmen falder fra hinanden i virkelighedens ubarmhjertige lys.Margaret Drabble (f. 1939) er en engelsk forfatter og samfundskritiker, der har vundet en lang række priser for sin litteratur. Endvidere er Margaret Drabble blevet udnævnt som "Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire" i 2008. Margaret Drabble debuterede som forfatter i 1963 med romanen "A Summer Bird-Cage", og sidenhen er det blevet til en lang række anmelderroste romaner.

"Mellemgrunden" handler om den 40-årige fraskilte Kate, der efter karriere og ægteskab har nået det punkt, hvor man standser op og ser tilbage og spørger sig selv: Hvorfor blev jeg sådan? Og hvad skal jeg nu lave?Mellemgrunden er også de mellemår, hvor man er fanget mellem børn og forældre. Denne periode er på en måde bogens "hovedperson".Margaret Drabble (f. 1939) er en engelsk forfatter og samfundskritiker, der har vundet en lang række priser for sin litteratur. Endvidere er Margaret Drabble blevet udnævnt som "Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire" i 2008. Margaret Drabble debuterede som forfatter i 1963 med romanen "A Summer Bird-Cage", og sidenhen er det blevet til en lang række anmelderroste romaner." – En bog der får en til at elske livet." – Jyllands-Posten

Frances Wingate er 35 år, og tilsyneladende lykkes det hende at klare det hele. Hun er en anerkendt arkæolog, der allerede har præsteret fremragende forskningsresultater, og hun er midt i en glimrende videnskabelig karriere. Hun er fraskilt med fire børn, som hun er en acceptabel mor for, og hun har haft et entusiastisk forhold til en gift mand.Her står vi, da romanen "Riger af guld" begynder.Vi lærer Frances personligt at kende som et frit, selvstændigt menneske, glad for sin position, intelligent funderende over livet og de vilkår, moderne mennesker lever under. Hun har appetit på livet – men under den blankpolerede overflade ulmer følelser, som hun helst vil holde skjult …Margaret Drabble (f. 1939) er en engelsk forfatter og samfundskritiker, der har vundet en lang række priser for sin litteratur. Endvidere er Margaret Drabble blevet udnævnt som "Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire" i 2008. Margaret Drabble debuterede som forfatter i 1963 med romanen "A Summer Bird-Cage", og sidenhen er det blevet til en lang række anmelderroste romaner.

Margaret Drabble returns with a powerful novel of unbreakable love, enduring friendships and a society changing forever

A young girl is plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea. In her diaries, she chronicles the intrigues of courtly life and her own extraordinary existence.Two hundred years later, the Red Queen's ghost haunts Dr Babs Halliwell, an Oxford academic obsessed with her memoirs and possessed by the many parallels with her own complicated past. But why and how does she keep the Red Queen's story alive?

Ailsa and Humphrey met as children by a grey, northern sea in post-war Britain. She, freckled and furious; he, quietly studious; both fascinated by the other. Years later, their lives collide as adults and burst into an intense yet brief love affair.Now, after thirty years apart, their lives are converging once again as they hurtle towards each other - their motivations, regrets and decisions laid bare.

The second in Margaret Drabble's trilogy, following The Radiant Way

"Achingly wise . . . Admirers of Marilynne Robinson will find themselves very much at home in this book." -Wall Street Journal Jessica Speight, an anthropologist in 1960s London, is at the beginning of a promising academic career when an affair leaves her a single mother. Anna is delightful-a pure gold baby. But as it becomes clear that Anna is not a normal child, the book circles questions of responsibility, potential, even age, with Margaret Drabble's characteristic intelligence and wit. Told from the point of view of Jess's fellow mothers, The Pure Gold Baby is a movingly intimate look at the unexpected transformations at the heart of motherhood.

Margaret Drabble's novels have illuminated the past fifty years, especially the changing lives of women, like no others. Yet her short fiction has its own unique brilliance. Her penetrating evocations of character and place, her wide-ranging curiosity, her sense of irony--all are on display here, in stories that explore marriage, female friendships, the English tourist abroad, love affairs with houses, peace demonstrations, gin and tonics, cultural TV programs, in stories that are perceptive, sharp, and funny. With an introduction by the Spanish academic Jose Fernandez that places the stories in the context of her life and her novels, this collection is a wonderful recapitulation of a masterly career.

Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman spent a summer together as children in Ornemouth, a town by the gray North Sea. Now, as they journey back to receive honorary degrees from a new university there--Humphrey on the train, Ailsa flying--they take stock of their lives, their careers, and their shared personal entanglements, romantic and otherwise. Humphrey is a successful marine biologist, happiest under water, but now retired; Ailsa, scholar and feminist, is celebrated for her pioneering studies of gender. Their mutual pasts unfold in an exquisite portrait of English social life in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a centuries-old memoir by a Korean crown princess. An appropriate gift indeed for her impending trip to Seoul, but Barbara doesn't know who sent it. On the plane, she avidly reads the memoir, a story of great intrigue as well as tragedy. The Crown Princess Hyegyong recounts in extraordinary detail the ways of the Korean court and confesses the family dramas that left her childless and her husband dead by his own hand. When a Korean man Barbara meets at her hotel offers to guide her to some of the haunts of the crown princess, Barbara tours the royal courts and develops a strong affinity for everything related to the princess and her mysterious life. Barbara's time in Korea goes quickly, but captivated by her experience and wanting to know more about the princess, she wonders if her life can ever be the way it was before.

Simon Camish, an embittered, diffident lawyer in a loveless marriage, would not have particularly noticed Rose Vassiliou had he not been asked to drive her home one night after a dinner party. Yet at one time she had been notorious-her name constantly in the news. Now, separated from her Greek husband, she lives alone with her three children. Despite all the efforts and sneers of her friends, she refuses to move from her slum house in a decaying neighborhood to which she has become attached. Gradually, Simon becomes aware that Rose is a woman of remarkable integrity and courage. He is drawn into her affairs when her husband takes legal action to reopen the question of custody of the children-a scheme for getting his wife back. And, while the precise nature of their ties eludes him, Simon comes to realize that Rose and her Greek ex-husband are forever and inextricably bound to each other.

When circumstances compel her to start over late in her life, Candida Wilton moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room, walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London--and begins to pour her soul into a diary. Candida is not exactly destitute. So, is the move perversity, she wonders, a survival test, or is she punishing herself? How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? What can happen, at her age, to change her life? In a voice that is pitch-perfect, Candida describes her health club, her social circle, and her attempts at risk-taking in her new life. She begins friendships of sorts with other women-widowed, divorced, never married, women straddled between generations. And then there is a surprise pension-fund windfall . . . A beautifully rendered story, this is Margaret Drabble at her novelistic best.

In the early 1900s, Bessie Bawtry, a small child with big notions, lives in a South Yorkshire mining town in England. Precocious and refined in a land of little ambition and much mining grime, Bessie waits for the day she can escape the bleak, coarse existence her ancestors had seldom questioned. Nearly a century later Bessie's granddaughter, Faro Gaulden, is listening to a lecture on genetic inheritance. She has returned to the depressed little town in which Bessie grew up and wonders at the families who never left. Confronted with what would have been her life had her grandmother stayed, she finds herself faced with difficult questions. Is she really so different from the South Yorkshire locals? As she soon learns, the past has a way of reasserting itself-not unlike the peppered moth that was once thought to be nearing extinction but is now enjoying a sudden unexplained resurgence. The Peppered Moth is a brilliant novel, full of irony, sadness, and humor.

In a "profoundly moving, intellectually acute” novel (Philadelphia Inquirer) that is "as meticulous as Jane Austen, as deadly as Evelyn Waugh” (Los Angeles Times), Margaret Drabble conjures up a retired writer besieged by her three grasping children in this dazzling, wickedly gothic tale.

The first in a trilogy, this startling novel charts the radical change in Britain during the Eighties through the eyes of three women

Loosely based on Drabble's own experiences, a compelling, beautifully written novel following three generations of women in one family

An honest and moving portrait of the everyday messiness of life, and the complications of love

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, an intimate novel about human desire against the backdrop of the sexual liberation movement of the Sixties

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

Witty and compassionate, the extraordinary debut from one of our greatest novelists, about lies and deceit, love and forgiveness

A beautifully written and deeply personal book on the jigsaw and the part it plays in the patchwork of its distinguished author's life. A mix of memoir, jigsaw history and the strange delights of puzzling