The pure gold baby
Jessica Speight, a young anthropology student in 1960s London, discovers that motherhood is more difficult than she had imagined when she gives birth to an exceptional child.
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- ISBN: 1443425362
- ISBN: 9781443425360
- Physical Description 291 pages
- Edition 1st Canadian ed.
- Publisher Toronto : HarperCollins, [2013]
- Copyright ©2013
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The Pure Gold Baby
The first new novel in five years from "one of the most versatile and accomplished writers of her generation" (Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker ) 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 it soon becomes clear that she will not be a normal child. As readers are drawn deeper into Jessica's world, they are confronted with questions of responsibility, potential, even age, all 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 thattakes us into that place with satiric verve, trenchant commentary, and a movingly intimate story of the unexpected transformations at the heart of motherhood.