The Red Queen

The Red Queen

Margaret Drabble

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Penguin Random House UK
Año de edición:
2005
ISBN:
9780141018164
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Set in 18th century Korea and the present day Margaret Drabble’s The Red Queen is a rich and atmospheric novel about love and what it means to be remembered.200 years after being plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea the Red Queen’s ghost decides to set the record straight about her extraordinary existence - and Dr Babs Halliwell with her own complicated past is the perfect envoy. Why does the Red Queen pick Babs to keep her story alive and what else does she want from her? A terrific novel set in 18th century Korea and the present day The Red Queen is a rich and atmospheric novel about love and what it means to be remembered’Elegant . . . a seductive beguiling narrator . . . delicious history’ Daily Express’One of our foremost women writers’ Guardian’Carefully wrought and beautifully written The Red Queen is another fine addition to the Drabble oeuvre’ Literary ReviewMargaret Drabble was born in 1939 in Sheffield Yorkshire the daughter of barrister and novelist John F. Drabble and sister of novelist A.S. Byatt. She is the author of eighteen novels and eight works of non-fiction including biographies of Arnold Bennett and Angus Wilson. Her many novels include The Radiant Way (1987) A Natural Curiosity (1989) The Gates of Ivory (1991) The Peppered Moth (2000) The Seven Sisters (2002) and The Red Queen (2004) all of which are published by Penguin. In 1980 Margaret Drabble was made a CBE and in 2008 she was made DBE. She is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd and lives in London and Somerset.

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