- Title:
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The Dark Flood Rises
- Written by:
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Margaret Drabble
- Read by:
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Maggie Ollerenshaw
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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10
- Duration:
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12 hours 24 minutes
- Published:
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November 01 2016
- Available Date:
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October 31 2016
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489365866
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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‘Reading Margaret Drabble’s novels has become something of a rite of passage … Sharply observed, exquisitely companionable tales.’
The Washington Post
‘One of the most versatile and accomplished writers of her generation.’
The New Yorker
The Dark Flood Rises asks momentous questions as it entertains and enthralls. In her beautifully imagined new book, Margaret Drabble is at her incisive best, exploring the end of life with her trademark humour, composure and wisdom.
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.