{"product_id":"2026200016117-secondhand-the-millstone","title":"The Millstone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when an fiercely independent young woman, determined to remain unattached, finds herself pregnant after a single, almost accidental encounter? The Millstone answers this question with piercing intelligence, following Rosamund Stacey — a brilliant Oxford-educated literary scholar living alone in 1960s London — as she navigates an unwanted pregnancy with stoic resolve, determined to raise her child without the knowledge of the father or the sympathy of the world. Margaret Drabble chronicles Rosamund's journey not as a tale of ruin, but as an unsettling and deeply moving portrait of a woman whose fierce self-sufficiency is both her greatest armour and her most profound vulnerability.\n\nDrabble writes with cool, ironic precision, dissecting the hypocrisies of class, gender, and social expectation in post-war Britain with surgical wit. The Millstone stands as one of the defining novels of second-wave feminism, presenting a heroine who refuses to be defined by sentiment even as motherhood quietly — and irrevocably — transforms her. The novel's power lies in what Rosamund cannot bring herself to say, and readers will find themselves haunted long after the final page by the question of what true love — for a child, for oneself — ultimately costs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342779457755,"sku":"2026200016117-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/70db6f6e-5a7c-43ce-9d47-5372f261f274.png?v=1790049354","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016117-secondhand-the-millstone","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}