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9780374134952 English 0374134952 A magnificently mordant reckoning with mortality by the great British novelistFrancesca 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 "
9780374134952 English 0374134952 A magnificently mordant reckoning with mortality by the great British novelistFrancesca 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 "