Enormous in scope and profound in sympathy, it hits every note from exquisitely trivial detail to ludicrous daily comedy to numbing tragedy. Essential reading!
- MARGARET ATWOOD,
The emotional withdrawal proposed to us in <i>The Radiant Way</i> is truly radical . . . This novel is a valuable specimen of a new consciousness
* New York Times *
A sublime example of Drabble's mastery in unravelling the intricacies of intimate relationships
* The Times *
Humane, intelligent, engrossing
* Independent *
An important book - entertaining, sad, witty, lively, dense with detail
* Evening Standard *
The novels brim with sharply observed life and the author's seemingly infinite sympathy for "ordinary women"
* New Yorker *
In Britain, Drabble tells us, ambition and idealism are damned equally. The women survive, detached from the world they were so engaged in a decade earlier. The men do worse . . . Drabble surrounds her chilling message - violent disintegration lurks just under the surface - with all kinds of skilful social detail . . . when she takes off into her own elegant figures and jumps, she puts on quite a show
* LA Times *
Drabble's late fiction has never been scared off from attempting social chronicle as well as individual psychological dry-point
* Kirkus Reviews *
<b>Praise for Margaret Drabble:</b> She was one of the most assiduous chroniclers of female experience in Britain during that time. Drabble's work has always been characterised by astute social observation
* Guardian *
I have learned so much from Margaret Drabble's work. Her prose is very beautiful, very funny, and at the same time very serious. Novels like <i>The Millstone</i> and <i>Jerusalem the Golden</i> have helped me to understand what great writing can be
- SALLY ROONEY,