The Red Queen & The Pure Gold Baby

✍ Scribed by Drabble, Margaret

• Book ID: 108974620
• Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 191 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780544158900

✦ Synopsis

Jessica Speight, a young anthropology student in 1960s London, is at the beginning of a promising academic career when an affair with her married professor turns her into a single mother. Anna is a pure gold baby with a delightful sunny nature. But as it becomes clear that Anna will not be a normal child, the book circles questions of responsibility, potential, even age, with Margaret Drabble�s characteristic intelligence, sympathy, and wit.

Drabble once wrote, �Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary; it is, perpetually, a dangerous place.� Told from the point of view of the group of mothers who surround Jess, The Pure Gold Baby is a brilliant, prismatic novel that takes us into that place with satiric verve, trenchant commentary, and a movingly intimate story of the unexpected transformations at the heart of motherhood.

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