{"product_id":"millstone-2","title":"Millstone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA celebration of the drama and intensity of the mother-child relationship, Margaret Drabble''s\u003ci\u003eThe Millstone\u003c\/i\u003e won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1965.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the Swinging Sixties, and Rosamund Stacey is young and inexperienced at a time when sexual liberation is well on its way. She conceals her ignorance beneath a show of independence, and becomes pregnant as a result of a one night stand. Although single parenthood is still not socially acceptable, she chooses to have the baby rather than to seek an illegal abortion, and finds her life transformed by motherhood. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePenguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Rosamund is marvellous, a true Drabble heroine . . . what spirit is here''  \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''One of our foremost women writers''  \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''The novelist who will have done for late twentieth-century London what Dickens did for Victorian London'' \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargaret 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. Her many novels include \u003ci\u003eThe Radiant Way\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), \u003ci\u003eA Natural Curiosity\u003c\/i\u003e (1989), \u003ci\u003eThe Gates of Ivory \u003c\/i\u003e(1991), \u003ci\u003eThe Peppered Moth\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), \u003ci\u003eThe Seven Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e (2002) and \u003ci\u003eThe Red Queen\u003c\/i\u003e (2004) all of which are published by Penguin. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57379548135806,"sku":"NW9780141041728","price":10.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141041728.jpg?v=1778234552","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/millstone-2","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}