The Dark Flood Rises

  • The Dark Flood Rises: A Novel
    The Dark Flood Rises: A Novel
    By Margaret Drabble

    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.

  • The Dark Flood Rises
    The Dark Flood Rises
    By Margaret Drabble

    Francesca Stubbs holds our hand as we take a walk through old age and death. Fran brings us to drinks with her dear friends, dropping off mouth-watering suppers for Claude,...

  • The Dark Flood Rises
    The Dark Flood Rises
    By Margaret Drabble

    NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017: ‘masterly’ GUARDIAN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: 'An absolute tour de force' Fran may be old but she's not going without a...

  • The Dark Flood Rises: A Novel
    The Dark Flood Rises: A Novel
    By Margaret Drabble

    Originally published: Great Britain: Canongate Books, 2016.

  • The Dark Flood Rises
    The Dark Flood Rises
    By Margaret Drabble

    The questions of what constitutes a good death preoccupy this glittering novel. The Dark Flood Rises asks momentous questions as it entertains and enthralls.