A01=Margaret Drabble
ambition
Author_Margaret Drabble
Category=FBA
eccentric women
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Exmoor
family secrets
fortune
matriarch
middle class
Succession
Thatcher
wealth
Product details
- ISBN 9781837264889
- Weight: 221g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 09 Apr 2026
- Publisher: Canongate Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Frieda Palmer - an eccentric, brilliant and infuriating woman with a maddening disregard for convention - has withdrawn to a decaying house by the sea on the wild edges of Exmoor. Now, the question of which of her children will inherit her fortune looms large. But do any of them really deserve it?
Set against the turbulent backdrop of post-Thatcherite Britain, The Witch of Exmoor is a spellbinding portrait of a troubled family and a wry dissection of middle-class sentiment around legacy and social ambition.
Dame Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of eighteen novels including A Summer Bird-Cage, The Millstone, The Peppered Moth, The Red Queen, The Sea Lady and the highly acclaimed The Pure Gold Baby. She has also written biographies, screenplays and was the editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature. She was appointed CBE in 1980, and made DBE in the 2008 Honours list. She was also awarded the 2011 Golden PEN Award for a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature. She is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd.
