England’s not a bad country… It’s just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post-industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons.
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Showing all text quotesMargaret Drabble (13)
Birth: | 5th June, 1939 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Biographer, Critic, Novelist |
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Drabble was born in Sheffield, the second daughter of the advocate and novelist John F. Drabble and the teacher Kathleen Marie. Her older sister is the novelist and critic Dame Antonia Byatt; their younger sister is the art historian Helen Langdon, and their brother, Richard Drabble, is a QC.
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