This is the 20th novel by Dame Margaret Drabble.

Francesca Stubbs holds our hand as we take a walk through old age and death. Fran brings us to drinks with her friends, dropping off suppers for her ex-husband, warm and cosy in his infirmity. She visits her daughter, holed up as the waters rise in a sodden West Country, and texts her son in Lanzarote, as he deals with the estate of his deceased girlfriend.

The questions of what constitutes a good death preoccupy this glittering novel. The Dark Flood Rises asks momentous questions as it entertains and enthralls. In her beautifully imagined new novel, Margaret Drabble is at her incisive best, exploring the end of life with her trademark humour, composure and wisdom.

Longlisted, International Dublin Literary Award, Ireland, 2018

tagging jeniwren in the australasia wishlist tag

the book shall travel within the next few days .. from the uk to arrive before christmas (so i am told)

happy reading

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the book is on its way ~
perhaps it shall arrive in time to join the packages under the tree

happy reading

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Woo Hoo a wishlist book arrived by post from the generous LadyIndigo from the Australasian Wishlist Tag Game.