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The Millstone

Margaret Drabble

Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 2411 Users | 180 Reviews

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Title	:	The Millstone
Author	:	Margaret Drabble
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	October 15th 1998 by Mariner Books (first published 1965)
Categories	:	Fiction. Feminism. Classics. European Literature. British Literature. Literature

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Margaret Drabble’s affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, is about a casual love affair, an unplanned pregnancy, and one young woman’s decision to become a mother. Rosamund Stacey is young and inexperienced at a time when sexual liberation is well on its way. She conceals her ignorance beneath a show of independence, and becomes pregnant as a result of a one night stand. Although single parenthood is still not socially acceptable, she chooses to have the baby rather than to seek an illegal abortion, and finds her life transformed by motherhood.

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Original Title:	The Millstone
ISBN:	0156006197 (ISBN13: 9780156006194)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Rosamund Stacey
Setting:	London, England(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1966)

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Ratings: 3.83 From 2411 Users | 180 Reviews

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Very peculiar. Quintessential scholar with not-so-great social skills gets pregnant by accident and is too shy, unassertive, and possibly conflicted, to terminate it in the early stages. Will she or won't she? Will she get dismissed from her position? Will she ever tell the father? Or even her own father?I'm not telling. It sounds like a good little mystery but it's more--it's an introspection. And quite a good one. In the progress of her problem, she comes out of her private little world and

The book was OK, but I didn't like the heroine much. The sort of person you wouldn't want to be friends with in real life.

I think I'm among the few who read this and got upset with the ending. While the novel is readable and - at least for the four-fifths of its length - manages to be largely inoffensive for such a subject (single motherhood in the 60s), it ends with the kind of run-of-the-mill writing one associates with Mills and Boon romances. Rosamund Stacey, the Cambridge postgraduate, is so bland one can hardly associate her with anything concerning (gasp!) sexuality. Somehow she manages to beget an

Damn. I'm about to read a lot more of Margaret Drabble.

Seen as a crucial novel on feminism and motherhood during the British 60s, The Millstone is told in the first-person by Rosamund Stacey, a well brought up Londoner, and well educated daughter of middle-class socialists. She is working on a PhD at the start of the novel and her sentences reflect her brainbox: intelligent, fluent, and meaningful, but theres also a shy stiffness in them, too. She was once told that sex is a very terrible thing, and after all her problems with the subject, Rosamund

I bought this principally because the author's the half-sister of A.S.Byatt (who is utterly wonderful) and I'd come across their work being compared, and it was priced at 30p. But it was utter sop. Unconvincing woman academic gets pregnant (the only time she has sex, ever), then finds complete fulfilment in her baby.. She could at least get some geeky stuff about Elizabethan poetry in, but no, we stick to baby adoration... Perhaps some of Margaret D's stuff is better - I'm pretty sure she was

My career has always been marked by a strange mixture of confidence and cowardice: almost, one might say, made by it. Rosamund Stacey is an unmarried, academically brilliant young woman living rent-free in her parents spacious London apartment while they are away in Africa. She has come of age on the cusp of the sexual revolution when the capital is about to morph into Swinging London and sex is almost de rigueur for a modern city girl of her class and generation. Nevertheless, in that