by Margaret Drabble · Editions Phébus · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782752905925
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«La Sorcière d'Exmoor» is the literary fiction novel by Margaret Drabble, published by Editions Phébus in paperback (384 pages, in French).
Frieda Haxby, an elderly British novelist, weary of conformism and social ills, abandons her former life to take refuge in a ruined, remote house in Exmoor. Her family, an example of the English bourgeoisie, sees its world shaken upon discovering that the old woman harbors surprising secrets that could alter their order.
Originally published in English in 1996 under the title «The Witch of Exmoor»; the French translation is by Katia Holmes.
For readers of literary fiction and British social satire, interested in family portraits and eccentric lives.
Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd is an English biographer, novelist and short story writer.
