The Garrick Year
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Emma Evans is a woman on the verge — ambitious, restless, and fiercely intelligent — thrust into a year of unwanted exile when her actor husband accepts a season at the Garrick Theatre in Hereford, dragging her away from a promising television career in London. Margaret Drabble's 1964 novel is a razor-sharp portrait of a marriage under strain, chronicling Emma's simmering resentments, her temptation toward an affair, and her fierce reckoning with the roles society insists women must play. Written with cool wit and unflinching psychological precision, The Garrick Year stands as one of Drabble's early masterworks — a book that dissects the quiet claustrophobia of domesticity with the surgical confidence of a writer who would go on to define a generation of British fiction. For a novel published over half a century ago, its portrait of a woman caught between desire, duty, and selfhood remains startlingly, uncomfortably alive.
Author: Margaret Drabble
Format: Paperback
Published: 1969, Penguin
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Emma Evans is a woman on the verge — ambitious, restless, and fiercely intelligent — thrust into a year of unwanted exile when her actor husband accepts a season at the Garrick Theatre in Hereford, dragging her away from a promising television career in London. Margaret Drabble's 1964 novel is a razor-sharp portrait of a marriage under strain, chronicling Emma's simmering resentments, her temptation toward an affair, and her fierce reckoning with the roles society insists women must play. Written with cool wit and unflinching psychological precision, The Garrick Year stands as one of Drabble's early masterworks — a book that dissects the quiet claustrophobia of domesticity with the surgical confidence of a writer who would go on to define a generation of British fiction. For a novel published over half a century ago, its portrait of a woman caught between desire, duty, and selfhood remains startlingly, uncomfortably alive.