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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
October 2013
On Sale: October 1, 2013
305 pages
ISBN: 0544158903
EAN: 9780544158900
Kindle: B00E78IEBS
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Fiction
Jessica Speight, a young anthropology student in 1960s
London, is at the beginning of a promising academic career
when an affair with her married professor turns her into a
single mother. Anna is a pure gold baby with a delightful
sunny nature. But as it becomes clear that Anna will not be
a normal child, the book circles questions of
responsibility, potential, even age, with Margaret Drabble’s
characteristic intelligence, sympathy, and
wit.
Drabble once wrote, “Family life itself, that
safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices,
is not a sanctuary; it is, perpetually, a dangerous place.”
Told from the point of view of the group of mothers who
surround Jess, The Pure Gold Baby is a brilliant,
prismatic novel that takes us into that place with satiric
verve, trenchant commentary, and a movingly intimate story
of the unexpected transformations at the heart of motherhood.
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