The Pure Gold Baby
- ISBN-10
- 0544228030
- ISBN-13
- 9780544228030
- Series
- The Pure Gold Baby
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 291
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-10-07
- Author
- Margaret Drabble
Description
Her promising career in 1960s London interrupted by an affair with a married professor that renders her a single mother, anthropology student Jessica Speight faces wrenching questions about responsibility, potential and compassion when her sunny child reveals unique needs. By the renowned author of The Sea Lady. 30,000 first printing.
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