by Margaret Drabble · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140028423
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«The Millstone» is the novel by Margaret Drabble, published by Penguin UK in paperback (176 pages, in English).
Set in 1960s London, the novel follows Rosamund Stacey, an inexperienced young woman who projects an independence she does not feel. After a one-night stand she becomes pregnant and, although single motherhood is frowned upon, she decides to keep the baby; raising the child transforms her life.
Originally published in 1965, it won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1966 and was adapted into a movie as «A Touch of Love».
Readers of contemporary British fiction interested in novels with a feminist perspective and with motherhood as a central theme.
Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd is an English biographer, novelist and short story writer.
