Praise for Margaret Drabble: "I have learned so much from Margaret Drabble's work. Her prose is very beautiful, very funny, and at the same time very serious" SALLY ROONEY "Margaret Drabble's early novels were intimate and sprightly chronicles of the small dissatisfactions and small triumphs of young women like herself" HILARY MANTEL, New York Review of Books "One of Britain's most dazzling writers" New York Times "[Her] novels brim with sharply observed life and the author's seemingly infinite sympathy for "ordinary women"" JOYCE CAROL OATES "One of the most versatile and accomplished authors of her generation" New Yorker "One of our foremost women writers" Guardian "One of the most thought-provoking and intellectually challenging writers around" Financial Times "The novelist who will have done for late twentieth-century London what Dickens did for Victorian London" New York Times Each of Margaret Drabble's novels has been an accurate, honest record of its time in the idiom of its time" URSULA K. LE GUIN "My heart races reading Drabble" Paris Review.