Books I Love: The Middle Ground

My Penguin copy of The Middle Ground (CNB 2013)

The Middle Ground by Margaret Drabble was first published in 1980. Her ninth novel is the story of middle aged Kate Armstrong and her relationships - with her children, her parents, and other characters - friends, women and men, facing mid life crises.

The author Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield, England in 1939. She read English at Cambridge and received a double first. She has written several novels (A Summer Bird-Cage 1963, The Garrick Year 1964, The Millstone 1965, The Radiant Way 1987, A Natural Curiosity 1989, The Sea Lady 2006, etc.), articles, plays, biographies, and edited The Oxford Companion to English Literature.

Note: When Margaret Drabble was visiting Universiti Sains Malaysia in the 1990s I had the opportunity to meet her during a session at the School of Humanities. I confess that at the time, I was not familiar with her work except for The Oxford Companion to English Literature which she edited in 1985.

With Zaharah, Margaret Drabble, & Dr Wong at USM
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Ex Libris CNB 0584
**Update: "The Sea Lady" borrowed from the Raja Tun Uda Library and read in June 2013.