by Margaret Drabble · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782267029932
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«Quand monte le flot sombre» is a novel by Margaret Drabble published by Christian Bourgois in 2017 (452 pages, in French).
The novel follows Fran Stubbs, a woman in her seventies who works with a charity inspecting nursing homes in England and who brings home-cooked food to Claude, her sick ex-husband. Set against the backdrop of England and the Canary Islands, it reflects with irony and humor on old age, dignity and freedom.
Published on March 2, 2017; the title alludes to the phrase «the dark flood» by D. H. Lawrence.
For readers of contemporary fiction seeking a lucid and humorous perspective on old age and dignity.
Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd is an English biographer, novelist and short story writer.
