A lovely first impression of this novel by Margaret Drabble, signed by the author. The first edition, first impression of this work. Signed by the author to title page.Margaret Drabble's eighteenth novel exploring the upper crust of London in the 1960s and 70s from the point of view of the protagonist, an anthropologist who accidentally gets pregnant but decides to keep the child.Complete with unclipped dust wrapper.Dame Margaret Drabble is an English biographer, novelist, and short story writer. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine