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The dark flood rises, a novel, Margaret Drabble

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The dark flood rises, a novel, Margaret Drabble

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eng

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fiction

Main title

The dark flood rises

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Margaret Drabble

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Francesca Stubbs holds our hand as we take a walk through old age and death. Fran brings us to drinks with her dear friends, dropping off mouth-watering suppers for Claude, her ex-husband, warm and cosy in his infirmity. She visits her daughter, Poppet, holed up as the waters rise in a sodden West Country, and texts her son Christopher in Lanzarote, as he deals with the estate of his shockingly deceased girlfriend. The questions of what constitutes a good death and how we understand it preoccupy this glittering novel. The Dark Flood Rises asks momentous questions as it entertains and enthralls

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