The Pure Gold Baby

The bestselling author of "A Summer Bird-Cage", "The Millstone" and "The Sea Lady" returns with a remarkable new novel of a family, a friendship, and a changing neighbourhood. It is a story of great beauty, wisdom and stealthy power by a true national treasure in the literary world. Margaret Drabble's first book with Canongate, this will be published with huge energy and conviction. 'One of the most thought-provoking and intellectually challenging writers around' "Financial Times"