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7 best books like The Millstone (Margaret Drabble): Saltwater, Frost in May, Moon Tiger, Invitation to the Waltz, Look at Me, The Doctor's Wife, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

Saltwater
AuthorJessica Andrews
ISBN1473682770
Lucy is lost. Growing up in the north east she wanted more. When others were thinking about the Nissan factory or call centres she was thinking about Pete Doherty, poetry and the possibilities London seemed to offer. University was the way out, her ticket to the promised land – where she’d become...
Frost in May
AuthorAntonia White
ISBN0860680495
4.5 stars
This is an autobiographical novel about life in a Catholic Girls school, quite closely based on White’s own life. Like the protagonist of the novel, Nanda, White was a Catholic convert at the age of nine and was sent to a school very like the one in the book. Nanda wants to be a good Catholic...
Moon Tiger
AuthorPenelope Lively
ISBN0802135331
The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead, Moon Tiger is her own history, the life of a strong, independent woman, with...
Invitation to the Waltz
AuthorRosamond Lehmann
ISBN1844083055
A diary for her innermost thoughts, a china ornament, a ten-shilling note, and a roll of flame-coloured silk for her first evening dress: these are the gifts Olivia Curtis receives for her seventeenth birthday. She anticipates her first dance, the greatest yet most terrifying event of her restricted...
Look at Me
AuthorAnita Brookner
ISBN0140147454
Riveting. Even when a frivolous person and so-called friend, Alix, decides to betray our narrator, Frances, the latter is constitutionally incapable of perceiving the underhandedness. Frances hasn’t been prepared for duplicity and dissembling in life, of which Alix is the keenest exemplar....
The Doctor's Wife
AuthorBrian Moore
ISBN0586087397
I read this book for the 2019 Mookse Madness Tournament.

Famously The Prime Minister’s wife blackballed The Doctor’s Wife for the Booker due to the sex scenes.

Trying to find out more about Moore the author, and a little underwhelmed with this book, I came across an obituary in...
Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
AuthorKerry Hudson
ISBN1784742457
What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhood and some of the country's most deprived towns

'When every day of your life you have been told you have nothing of value to offer, that you are worth nothing to society, can you ever escape that sense...
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