{"product_id":"2026200010315-secondhand-a-summer-bird-cage","title":"A Summer Bird-Cage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA razor-sharp debut novel, A Summer Bird-Cage introduces Sarah Bennett, a young Oxford graduate adrift in post-university life, narrating the story of her glamorous older sister Louise's perplexing marriage to a wealthy but cold novelist. Margaret Drabble sets her story against the backdrop of early 1960s London, weaving a taut, intimate portrait of two sisters whose relationship is defined as much by rivalry and misunderstanding as by love, drawing the reader into a world of ambition, beauty, and the quiet desperation of women constrained by social expectation.\n\nDrabble's prose is crisp, witty, and deceptively light — a voice that conceals profound observations about female identity, intellectual aspiration, and the limited choices available to educated women in mid-century Britain. The novel stands as an early landmark of second-wave feminist fiction, anticipating the themes Drabble would master across a distinguished career, and its central question — whether a woman can truly have both freedom and love — remains as provocative now as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130667180251,"sku":"2026200010315-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/25e7975f-811e-4a19-9b08-b441708abe8b.png?v=1786588293","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200010315-secondhand-a-summer-bird-cage","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}