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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     More Content       More by this author     Drabble, Margaret, 1939-     Subjects     Women authors -- Fiction.     Older women -- Fiction.     Families -- Fiction.     Old age -- Fiction.     Mortality -- Fiction.     England -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Drabble, Margaret, 1939-       by title:      The dark flood rises...       by call number:      FICTION DRA     Search the Web     Drabble, Margaret, 1939-     Women authors -- Fiction.     Older women -- Fiction.     Families -- Fiction.     Old age -- Fiction.     Mortality -- Fiction.     England -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The dark flood rises / Margaret Drabble. by Drabble, Margaret, 1939- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. Call #: FICTION DRA Subjects Women authors -- Fiction.   Older women -- Fiction.   Families -- Fiction.   Old age -- Fiction.   Mortality -- Fiction.   England -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781782118336 9780374134952 (hc.) Edition:  1st American ed. Description:  327 p. ; 24 cm. Summary:  "A magnificently mordant reckoning with mortality by the great British novelist Francesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives restlessly round England, which is 'her last love'. She wants to 'see it all before she dies'. Amid the professional conferences she attends, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home-cooked dinners to her ex-husband, texts her son, who is grieving over the sudden death of his girlfriend, and drops in on her daughter, a quirky young woman who lives in a floodplain in the West Country. The space between vitality and morality suddenly seems narrow, but Fran is not ready to settle yet, with a 'cat upon her knee'. She still prizes her 'frisson of autonomy', her belief in herself as a dynamic individual doing meaningful work in the world. This dark and glittering novel moves back and forth between an interconnected group of family and friends in England and a seemingly idyllic expat community in the Canary Islands. It is set against a backdrop of rising flood tides in Britain and the seismic fragility of the Canaries, where we also observe the flow of immigrants from an increasingly war-torn Middle East. With Margaret Drabble's characteristic wit and deceptively simple prose, The Dark Flood Rises enthralls, entertains, and asks existential questions in equal measure. Of course, there is undeniable truth in Francesca's insight: 'Old age, it's a fucking disaster!'"--From publisher. Genre:  Psychological fiction. Literary fiction. Holds:  3   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION DRA Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION DRA Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked out Jun 21, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Tantallon Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION DRA Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked out Jul 17, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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