{"product_id":"2026200010316-secondhand-the-waterfall","title":"The Waterfall","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\u003eJane Gray is a poet adrift in the wreckage of her marriage, isolated in a cold London flat where she has just given birth, when her cousin's husband, James, arrives and ignites a consuming, irrational passion that threatens to upend everything she knows. Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall (1969) chronicles this affair with a fierce, almost clinical honesty, alternating between first- and third-person narration as Jane simultaneously lives her story and interrogates her own telling of it — questioning whether love is liberation or self-destruction.\n\nDrabble writes with a razor-sharp intelligence about the contradictions of womanhood in the late 1960s: the tension between female desire and social expectation, between romantic surrender and intellectual autonomy. The novel's fractured, self-aware structure is not merely a stylistic flourish but a profound argument about the stories women tell themselves to survive. For readers who believe they understand the boundaries between passion and obsession, The Waterfall will quietly, devastatingly prove them wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130666492123,"sku":"2026200010316-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/35fd03a4-23a6-4895-86ed-fbd1b3363981.png?v=1786588253","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200010316-secondhand-the-waterfall","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}