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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Drabble, Margaret, 1939- author.     Subjects     Older women -- Fiction.     Old age -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Drabble, Margaret, 1939- author.       by title:      The dark flood rises...         MARC Display

The dark flood rises [large type] / Margaret Drabble. by Drabble, Margaret, 1939- author. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017. Subjects Older women -- Fiction.   Old age -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781432839505 (large print ; hardcover) 1432839500 (large print ; hardcover) Series:  Thorndike Press large print core series. Description:  515 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. Edition:  Large print edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  Francesca Stubbs has an extremely full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives "restlessly round England," which is "her last love ... She wants to see it all before she dies." Amid the professional conferences that dominate her schedule, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home cooked dinners to her ailing ex-husband, texts her son, who is grieving over the shocking death of his girlfriend, and drops in on her daughter, a quirky young woman who lives in a flood plain in the West Country. Fran cannot help but think of her mortality, but she is "not ready to settle yet, with a cat upon her knee." She still prizes her "frisson of autonomy," her belief in herself as a dynamic individual doing meaningful work in the world. The Dark Flood Rises moves between Fran's interconnected group of family and friends in England and a seemingly idyllic expat community in the Canary Islands. In both places, disaster looms. In Britain, the flood tides are rising, and in the Canaries, there is always the potential for a seismic event. As well, migrants are fleeing an increasingly war-torn Middle East. Though The Dark Flood Rises delivers the pleasures of a traditional novel, it is clearly situated in the precarious present. Margaret Drabble's latest enthralls, entertains, and asks existential questions in equal measure. Alas, there is undeniable truth in Fran's insight: "Old age, it's a fucking disaster "   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Library For The Blind and Print Disabled Large Type LT DRABBLE Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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