A celebration of the drama and intensity of the mother-child
relationship, Margaret Drabble's The Millstone won the John Llewellyn
Rhys Prize in 1965. It is the Swinging Sixties, and Rosamund Stacey is
young and inexperienced at a time when sexual liberation is well on its
way. She conceals her ignorance beneath a show of independence, and
becomes pregnant as a result of a one night stand.
Although
single parenthood is still not socially acceptable, she chooses to have
the baby rather than to seek an illegal abortion, and finds her life
transformed by motherhood. Penguin Decades bring you the novels that
helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were
bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply
misunderstood.
All represent their time and helped define their
generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of
storytelling. 'Rosamund is marvellous, a true Drabble heroine . . . what spirit is here' Sunday Times 'One of our foremost women writers'
Guardian' The novelist who will have done for late twentieth-century
London what Dickens did for Victorian London' The New York Times
The Millstone - Margaret Drabble
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