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The Dark Flood Rises
  • ISBN: 9781782118336
  • Pages: 336
  • Publisher: Canongate
  • Binding: Paperback

The Dark Flood Rises

Margaret Drabble
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By turns joyous and profound, darkly sardonic and moving, The Dark Flood Rises questions what makes a good life, and a good death.

Francesca Stubbs may be old but she’s not going without a fight. So she dyes her hair, enjoys every glass of red wine, drives restlessly around the country and lives in an insalubrious tower block that her loved ones disapprove of. She brings us to drinks with her dear friends, dropping off mouth-watering suppers for Claude, her ex-husband, warm and cosy in his infirmity. She visits her daughter, Poppet, holed up as the waters rise in a sodden West Country, and texts her son Christopher in Lanzarote, as he deals with the estate of his shockingly deceased girlfriend.

‘An absolute tour de force’ Guardian, Best Books of the Year

‘Masterly’ New York Times, 100 Notable Books of 2017



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