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Margaret Drabble

UK  (1939 - )
(Sister of Antonia S Byatt)
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About Margaret Drabble
Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and educated at the Mount School, York, and Newnham College, Cambridge. She is a novelist and critic, and editor of the fifth edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Margaret Drabble is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd, and they divide their time between London and Somerset.
 
Margaret Drabble recommends
The Echoing Grove
The Echoing Grove (1953)
Rosamond Lehmann
"Lehmann has always written brilliantly of women in love."
Gentleman and Ladies
Gentleman and Ladies (1968)
Susan Hill
"She has the gift of writing books that one has to read compulsively to the end."
Eva Trout: or, Changing Scenes
Eva Trout: or, Changing Scenes (1968)
Elizabeth Bowen
"Miss Bowen is magnificent when she writes about conspiracy, duplicity and ambiguity, and her achievement is extremely impressive."
The Juniper Tree
The Juniper Tree (1985)
Barbara Comyns
"Resonant, challenging, memorable."



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