The Dark Flood Rises

Author: Margaret Drabble

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Description

NEW YORK TIMES100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017: 'masterly'
GUARDIANBEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: 'An absolute tour de force'


Fran may be old but she's not going without a fight. So she dyes her hair, enjoys every glass of red wine, drives restlessly around the country and lives in an insalubrious tower block that her loved ones disapprove of. And as each of them - her pampered ex Claude, old friend Jo, flamboyant son Christopher and earnest daughter Poppet - seeks happiness in their own way, what will the last reckoning be? Will they be waving or drowning when the end comes? By turns joyous and profound, darkly sardonic and moving,The Dark Flood Rises questions what makes a good life, and a good death.

Reviews

`An extraordinary jewel of a book...This is a work by a master of fiction and every library and school should rush to get a copy. It is a summation of what a woman of exceptional achievement and intelligence knows about writing and about life.' * Australian * `The Dark Flood Rises pulls no punches about the indignities of "getting on", lightened by brilliant writing and good humour.' * North and South * `As Drabble unfolds the interweaving stories of her cast, most of them in their seventies, she gently and adroitly brings them all to moving, poignant life...I don't think anyone has written better about old age as we know it now...Drabble's new work is to be welcomed, appreciated and celebrated.' * New Zealand Listener * `Luminously perceptive.' * Australian Women's Weekly * `[A] supremely wise novel...It's a quiet epic...Drabble's intricate mosaic of observation, meditation, and affectionate humour suggests that if there are answers, they lie in small things. Call no man happy until he dies, goes the old saying: but perhaps the odd moment of happiness can be enough.' * Australian Book Review * `Engaging, informative, thoughtful and smart on detail...Hooray for Margaret Drabble.' * Age * `[Drabble] applies her signature humour, compassion and wisdom to deliberate on what constitutes a good life and a good death, from the viewpoint of the old and the bereaved.' * Best Books of 2016, New Zealand Listener * `An often exhilarating read. Speaking once more for her generation, Drabble has composed a quirky tribute to those "bravely battling on".' * Sunday Times * `A thoughtful and deep book...[Drabble's] sharp intelligence and the wisdom of her remarkable life are laid out clearly and provokingly here. You could not find a better guide for the final journey.' * Saturday Paper * `Masterly, poignant and uplifting.' * Mail on Sunday * `Margaret Drabble's meditation on old age and death is erudite, beautifully written, funny, tragic and definitely not for anyone over 60 who prefers an ostrich approach to the future.' * Daily Mail *

Author description

Dame Margaret Drabble is the author of seventeen highly acclaimed novels. She has also written biographies and screenplays, and was the editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature. She was appointed CBE in 1980 and made DBE in the 2008 Honours list.