A Summer Bird-Cage

by Margaret Drabble

Out in the world for the first time, recent Oxford-grad Sarah is forced back into the family fold when harsh and unsettling rumors about her sister Louise’s recent marriage to the wealthy novelist Stephen Halifax captivate the gossip mills and tabloids of the rich and powerful of 1960s London.

  • Format: eBook
  • ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780544285200
  • ISBN-10: 0544285204
  • Pages: 214
  • Publication Date: 10/01/2013
  • Carton Quantity: 1
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  • About the Book
    Attractive and witty, Sarah has just graduated from Oxford and started a new job at the BBC. As she immerses herself in the excitement of 1960s London, her beautiful older sister, Louise, marries the famous, though admittedly difficult, novelist Stephen Halifax. Louise initially revels in the newfound wealth and glamor that her marriage affords her, but soon she finds her relationship the subject of bitter gossip and scathing tabloid headlines. Despite the distance that has always existed between the two sisters, Sarah finds herself bound to Louise as she faces the scrutiny of London society and the two begin to forge a connection they had previously thought impossible. With Margaret Drabble’s signature eye for the subtleties and intricacies of everyday life, A Summer Bird-Cage is captivating, a dazzling, resonant portrait of two young women struggling to find their footing in a city as fickle as it is intoxicating.
  • About the Author

    Margaret Drabble

    MARGARET DRABBLE is the author of The Sea Lady, The Seven Sisters, The Peppered Moth, and The Needle's Eye, among other novels. For her contributions to contemporary English literature, she was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2008.

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    Praise for Margaret Drabble:

    "Reading a Margaret Drabble novel has always been like cozying up with a cup of hot tea by a gas fire with a dull English winter rain misting the window, and contemplating the story of one's own life."
    —The New York Times

    "As meticulous as Jane Austen, and as deadly as Evelyn Waugh."
    —Los Angeles Times

    "The deft commingling of the sentimental and the matter-of-fact is characteristic of writer Margaret Drabble…Drabble is one of the most versatile and accomplished writers of her generation."
    —Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker

    "Reading Margaret Drabble's novels has become something of a rite of passage…Sharply observed, exquisitely companionable tales of women of a certain age and class, educated, egocentric, strong, unlucky in love."
    —Washington Post

    "    Drabble's fiction has achieved a panoramic vision of contemporary life."
    —Chicago Tribune

    "What distinguishes Drabble's fiction from the commonplace is that, like Doris Lessing's early work, it nails femaleness. Drabble's women bleed, some metaphorically, but not all."
    —San Francisco Chronicle

    "A superb novelist."
    —The Dallas Morning News
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