The Seven Sisters |
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| Author:
| Drabble, Margaret |
| ISBN: | 978-0-544-30132-0 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers
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| Imprint: | Mariner Books |
| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $2.99 |
Book Description:
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An Englishwoman at a crossroads in her life takes an unexpected path in this "teasingly clever new novel" by the author of The Millstone (Publisher Weekly).
Candida Wilton--a woman recently betrayed, rejected, divorced, and alienated from her three grown daughters--moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London. The move, however, is not a financial necessity. She herself...
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An Englishwoman at a crossroads in her life takes an unexpected path in this "teasingly clever new novel" by the author of The Millstone (Publisher Weekly).
Candida Wilton--a woman recently betrayed, rejected, divorced, and alienated from her three grown daughters--moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London. The move, however, is not a financial necessity. She herself wonders if she's putting herself through a survival test...or perhaps a punishment.
How will Candida adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? What can happen, at her age, to change her life? There is a relationship with a computer to which she now confides her past and her present. An adult-ed class on Virgil offers friendships of sorts with other women--widows, divorced, never married, women straddled between generations. And then comes Candida's surprise inheritance, and the surprising things she chooses to do with it...