A Summer Bird-Cage, Margaret Drabble. Penguin, 1968.
Vintage paperback. Heavy wear to cover; soiling and scratches, and creasing. Heavy slant to spine. A stain inside affecting bottom crease of text-block. Fair condition.
Margaret Drabble is an English novelist and biographer. She published 19 novels, most of whose protagonists are women. Her books tended to address to reflect her own personal experiences, as well as English contemporary society vs the individual members of society. Her first novels explored the lives of women in the 60s/70s who dealt with the conflict of motherhood and intellectualism; addressed sexual, professional, and social conflicts.
A Summer Bird-Cage is Drabble's debut novel, first published in 1963.