About the Book

When circumstances compel her to start over late in her life, Candida Wilton moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room, walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London--and begins to pour her soul into a diary. Candida is not exactly destitute. So, is the move perversity, she wonders, a survival test, or is she punishing herself? How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? What can happen, at her age, to change her life?
In a voice that is pitch-perfect, Candida describes her health club, her social circle, and her attempts at risk-taking in her new life. She begins friendships of sorts with other women-widowed, divorced, never married, women straddled between generations. And then there is a surprise pension-fund windfall . . .
A beautifully rendered story, this is Margaret Drabble at her novelistic best.

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 307 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Harvest Books (Oct. 31st, 2003)

ISBN-10: 0156028751

ISBN-13: 9780156028752

Dimensions: 5.30 x 7.90 x 0.80 inches

Shipping Weight: 0.85 lbs

• Categories: Literary Fiction and Literature