A Writer’s Britain: Landscape in Literature, by Margaret Drabble
This is a book about the inner landscapes of writers, or the ones they inhabited when young, and how these informed their work and affected their readers. In the process of describing these, Margaret Drabble makes lively connections, parallels and distinctions.
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