A Summer Bird-Cage [Hardcover]

Margaret Drabble (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson (1989)
• ISBN-10: 0297176986
• ISBN-13: 978-0297176985
• ASIN: B000K2LD36
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

More About the Author

Margaret Drabble is the author of The Sea Lady, The Seven Sisters, The Peppered Moth, and The Needle's Eye, among other novels. She has written biographies of Arnold Bennett and Angus Wilson, and she is the editor of the fifth and sixth editions of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. For her contributions to contemporary English literature, she was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2008.

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An evocative voice from the sixties, November 7, 2002

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"nicola_webb" (Tokyo) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Summer Bird-cage (Mass Market Paperback)

Sarah had come home from Paris to be a bridesmaid for her sister Louise. When they were young Sarah adored her sister, but her sister never seemed to be the least bit interested in her. The novel traces a year in their lives through Sarah's eyes. It is a book about growing up, learning about different kinds of people and most of all its about the institution of marriage as viewed by Sarah through Louise's marriage.

Although this book has been around for 40 years it is still fresh and relevant today. People have always hidden who they are and what their true motives are.

I have never read a Margaret Drabble book before, but I will definitely read more in future. I love her prose and her acute observations of people. Well worth a read!