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Margaret Drabble was born in 1939 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, the daughter of barrister and novelist John F. Drabble, and sister of novelist A.S. Byatt. She is the author of eighteen novels and eight works of non-fiction, including biographies of Arnold Bennett and Angus Wilson. In 1980, Margaret Drabble was made a CBE and in 2008 she was made DBE. She is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd, and lives in London and Somerset.
Brims with sharply observed life and the author's seemingly infinite sympathy for ordinary women -- Joyce Carol Oates Drabble writes so penetratingly about the female condition that it is impossible not to laugh, wince and admire -- Amanda Craig New Statesman
