I have learned so much from Margaret Drabble's work. Her prose is very beautiful, very funny, and the same time very serious -- SALLY ROONEY Each of Margaret Drabble's novels has been an accurate, honest record of its time in the idiom of its time -- URSULA K. LE GUIN Full of life * * Independent * * Utterly gripping . . . Rarely has feminist escapism been so stylishly disguised * * Guardian * * Truly fascinating . . . Cannot fail to absorb the reader * * Sunday Telegraph * * The book is a pure delight, its formal puzzles intriguing and, in quieter moments, the bonds between the two very different women wholly convincing * * Telegraph * * Elegant . . . A seductive beguiling narrator . . . Delicious history * * Daily Express * * Engrossing and provocative: a scarlet narrative thread reminds us how magical the novel can be in telling stories and lives * * Kirkus Reviews * * Carefully wrought and beautifully written The Red Queen is another fine addition to the Drabble oeuvre * * Literary Review * *
