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050	0	0	_aPR6054.R25 _bD37 2017
082	1		_aFIC DRA _2
100	1		_aDrabble, Margaret _d(1939 -)
245	1	4	_aThe dark flood rises : _ba novel _c/ Margaret Drabble
250			_aFirst American edition.
260			_aNew York _b: Farrar, Straus & Giroux _c, 2017
300			_a327 p. _c; 24 cm
520			_aA magnificently mordant reckoning with mortality by the great British novelist Francesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives restlessly round England, which is 'her last love'. She wants to 'see it all before she dies'. Amid the professional conferences she attends, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home-cooked dinners to her ex-husband, texts her son, who is grieving over the sudden death of his girlfriend, and drops in on her daughter, a quirky young woman who lives in a floodplain in the West Country. The space between vitality and morality suddenly seems narrow, but Fran is not ready to settle yet, with a 'cat upon her knee'. She still prizes her 'frisson of autonomy', her belief in herself as a dynamic individual doing meaningful work in the world. This dark and glittering novel moves back and forth between an interconnected group of family and friends in England and a seemingly idyllic expat community in the Canary Islands. It is set against a backdrop of rising flood tides in Britain and the seismic fragility of the Canaries, where we also observe the flow of immigrants from an increasingly war-torn Middle East.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aOlder women _v--Fiction
650		4	_aOld age _v--Fiction
651		4	_aEngland _v--Fiction
655		4	_aPsychological fiction
942			_cMO
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