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IT IS 1905 AND BESSIE BAWTRY is a small child living in Breaseborough, a South Yorkshire mining town. Unusually gifted, she studies hard, waiting for the day when she can sit the Cambridge entrance exam and escape the life her ancestors never even thought to question.
Nearly a century later Bessie's granddaughter, Faro Gaulden, returns to the depressed little town where Bessie grew up. Exotic and glamorous, Faro appears to be an outsider among the families who have stayed, unchanging, for generations. But for all her sophistication, has Faro really travelled any further than her Breaseborough kin?
Margaret Drabble's new novel, her first for five years, is a wonderfully absorbing, multi-layered portrait of four generations of one family, with origins similar to her own. It explores themes of relationships between the generations, environmental and genetic inheritance and adaptation, DNA, and the individual's place in history.
Nearly a century later Bessie's granddaughter, Faro Gaulden, returns to the depressed little town where Bessie grew up. Exotic and glamorous, Faro appears to be an outsider among the families who have stayed, unchanging, for generations. But for all her sophistication, has Faro really travelled any further than her Breaseborough kin?
Margaret Drabble's new novel, her first for five years, is a wonderfully absorbing, multi-layered portrait of four generations of one family, with origins similar to her own. It explores themes of relationships between the generations, environmental and genetic inheritance and adaptation, DNA, and the individual's place in history.