The Witch Of Exmoor (CH) - Hardcover

Drabble, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0708989543 ISBN 13: 9780708989548

Publisher: Charnwood, 1997

Synopsis

'Confident and marvellously accomplished.' - London Review of Books '...Miss Drabble's mastery in unravelling the intricacies of intimate relationships.' - The Times A new novel from this celebrated author. A midsummer's evening in Hampshire, and the Palmer family - Daniel, Gogo, Rosemary, their partners and their children - are coming to the end of an enjoyable meal. As usual, their conversation is brought back to the more pressing problem of their famous and eccentric mother, Frieda, who has abandoned them and gone off to live alone on Exmoor. Frieda has always been a powerful and puzzling figure, a monster mother with a mysterious past. What is she plotting against them now? Why has she disappeared? Has the dark spirit of Exmoor finally driven her mad?

About this title

About the Author:

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.

From AudioFile:

Anybody who watches the Saturday night PBS sitcoms (or "Britcoms") will immediately recognize the voice of Richard Bucket from "Keeping Up Appearances"--hardly the narrator you would expect to be reading such fine literary fiction! But since Margaret Drabble's prose is often more acerbic than eloquent, the straightforward narration seems surprisingly appropriate. Less appropriate are the domestic scenes that are the heart of this complex novel about a contemporary British family at risk. Since the narrator doesn't try to distinguish one person from another--even the aging and eccentric matriarch who is the witch of the title--it's at first baffling to follow the dialogue. But eventually the characters become so familiar and the plot so compelling that the undramatic voice of Clive Swift becomes comfortably familiar. J.C. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Charnwood
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0708989543
• ISBN 13: 9780708989548
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432