The Radiant Way

by Margaret Drabble

Overview

Friends since their Cambridge days, Liz Headleand, Alix Bowen, and Esther Breuer have settled into drastically different walks of life, but over the course of five years and the affairs, divorce, remarriage, sexual exploration, and great political and social turmoil that come with them, we see the rapidly changing world from their three rich and vastly different vantage points, and the friendship that holds them all together.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780544286771
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	09/23/2014
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	407
File size:	733 KB

About the Author

Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield, England, in 1939, and studied English at Cambridge University. Her novels include The Radiant Way, A Natural Curiosity, The Gates of Ivory, The Witch of Exmoor, The Peppered Moth, and, most recently, The Seven Sisters. Among her non-fiction works are Arnold Bennett: A Biography, A Writer's Britain, and Angus Wilson: A Biography. She is also the editor of The Oxford Companion to English Literature.

Margaret Drabble has three children and is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd. She lives in London, England.

Hometown:

London, England

Date of Birth:

June 5, 1939

Place of Birth:

Sheffield, England

Education:

Cambridge University

Editorial Reviews

Enormous in scope and profound in sympathy, it hits every note from exquisitely trivial detail to ludicrous daily comedy to numbing tragedy. Essential reading!”
–Margaret Atwood

“A provocative and hugely entertaining novel.”
–Globe and Mail

“A demanding, risk-taking and rewarding masterpiece.”
–Maclean’s

“Margaret Drabble is a writer of shining wit and splendid seriousness.”
–Alice Munro

“Drabble combines the humanity of Alice Munro and the intelligence of Margaret Atwood with her own crystalline wit.”
–Sheila Fischman

“The Radiant Way, with its brave perceptivity and bite, stands as a modern Middlemarch, an ultimately inspiring achievement.”
–Vancouver Province

“A perceptive, contemporary novel.…Drabble has a dry wit and unflinching eye for the ridiculous.…”
–Kitchener-Waterloo Record

“Splendid.…The Radiant Way leaves us profoundly depressed by the ailing condition of England and yet exhilarated by Drabble’s considerable accomplishment in this richly conceived novel.”
–Hamilton Spectator

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