The Garrick Year

First edition
(publ. Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

The Garrick Year is the second novel by British novelist by Margaret Drabble first published in 1964. The novel is a first person account of Emma, a london wife and mother examining the fraught bits of her marriage and an affair.^[1]^[2]

Development

Drabble wrote the novel while living in Stratford-upon-Avon, thus focuses significantly on a satirical treatment of the theatre and actors.^[3]

Reception

Kirkus reviews called the novel better than Drabble's debut novel A Summer Bird-Cage.^[1]

Reception

1 2 "THE GARRICK YEAR by Margaret Drabble Kirkus reviews". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
↑ "Staging a Marriage: Margaret Drabble's "The Garrick Year" - ProQuest". search.proquest.com. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
↑ Stovel, Nora Foster (Spring 1984). "Staging a Marriage: Margaret Drabble's The Garrick Year". Mosaic. 17 (2).

Works by Margaret Drabble

A Summer Bird-Cage (1963)
The Garrick Year (1964)
The Millstone (1965)
Jerusalem the Golden (1967)
The Waterfall (1969)
The Needle's Eye (1972)
London Consequences (1972, with others)
The Realms of Gold (1975)
The Ice Age (1977)
The Middle Ground (1980)
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1985, 2000)
The Radiant Way (1987)
A Natural Curiosity (1989)
The Gates of Ivory (1991)
The Witch of Exmoor (1996)
The Peppered Moth (2001)
The Seven Sisters (2002)
The Red Queen (2004)
The Sea Lady (2006)
The Pure Gold Baby (2013)

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