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The seven sisters

From the celebrated author of The Peppered Moth and The Witch of Exmoor, a splendid novel about starting over late in life Candida Wilton-a woman recently betrayed, rejected, divorced, and alienated from her three grown daughters-moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London. Candida is not exactly destitute. So is the move perversity, she wonders, a survival test, or is she punishing herself? How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? What can happen, at her age, to change her life? And yet, as she climbs the dingy communal staircase with her suitcases, she feels both nervous and exhilarated. There is a relationship with a computer to which she now confides her past and her present. And friendships of sorts with other women - widows, divorced, never married, women straddled between generations. And then Candida's surprise inheritance ... A beautifully rendered story, this is Margaret Drabble at her novelistic best.

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  • "7 sisters"@en
  • "7 sestrica"

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  • "From the celebrated author of The Peppered Moth and The Witch of Exmoor, a splendid novel about starting over late in life Candida Wilton-a woman recently betrayed, rejected, divorced, and alienated from her three grown daughters-moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London. Candida is not exactly destitute. So is the move perversity, she wonders, a survival test, or is she punishing herself? How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? What can happen, at her age, to change her life? And yet, as she climbs the dingy communal staircase with her suitcases, she feels both nervous and exhilarated. There is a relationship with a computer to which she now confides her past and her present. And friendships of sorts with other women - widows, divorced, never married, women straddled between generations. And then Candida's surprise inheritance ... A beautifully rendered story, this is Margaret Drabble at her novelistic best."@en
  • "Candida Wilton - recently divorced, and alienated from her three grown daughters - moves from lovely Suffolk to a tiny run-down flat in London. Candida is not exactly destitute. So is the move perversity, she wonders, a survival test, or is she punishing herself? How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? What can happen, at her age, to change her life? And yet, as she climbs the dingy communal staircase with her suitcases, she feels both nervous and exhilarated. There is a relationship with a computer diary to which she now confides her past and her present. And friendships of sorts with other women - widows, divorced, never married, women straddled between generations. And then Candida's surprise inheritance, with which she maps out the journey she has long dreamed of: to Tunia, Naples and Pompeii. Finally, travelling with six companions, she realises that one can make anything happen, if one has the nerve."@en
  • "Candida Wilton has been ignored by her husband and children for years, before being displaced by a younger woman. Moving to London, alone, divorced and without much money, it seems she will now enjoy a life only of small pleasures. When she receives an unexpected windfall, Candida maps out a journey she has long dreamed of."
  • "Candida Wilton has been ignored by her husband and children for years, before being displaced by a younger woman. Moving to London, alone, divorced and without much money, it seems she will now enjoy a life only of small pleasures. When she receives an unexpected windfall, Candida maps out a journey she has long dreamed of."@en
  • "Candida Wilton--a woman recently betrayed, rejected, divorced, and alienated from her three grown daughters--moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London. Candida is not exactly destitute. So, is the move perversity, she wonders, a survival test, or is she punishing herself' How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city' What can happen, at her age, to change her life' And yet, as she climbs the dingy communal staircase with her suitcases, she feels both nervous and exhilarated. There is a relationship with a computer to which she now confides her past and her present. And friendships of sorts with other women--widows, divorced, never married, women straddled between generations. And then Candida's surprise inheritance ... A beautifully rendered story, this is Margaret Drabble at her novelistic best."@en
  • "Divorced and estranged from her grown daughters, Candida Wilton moves to a rundown flat well below her means and finds exhilaration in her self-imposed poverty, during which she confides her thoughts to a computer and makes friends with new peers."
  • "A recently-divorced woman now living in London with new friends takes six travelling companions on a long-anticipated voyage after receiving a sudden windfall."@en
  • "A recently-divorced woman now living in London with new friends takes six travelling companions on a long-anticipated voyage after receiving a sudden windfall."
  • "Candida Wilton arrives in London, alone, divorced and without much money. Yet she is strangely excited: what might happen to her now in her final years? She is prepared to fill her empty life with little events and pleasures, but she finds her horizons broadened by an unexpected windfall. Gathering together six travelling companions - women friends from childhood, from married life and after - Candida maps out the journey she has long dreamed of: to Tunis, Naples and Pompeii. Finally, she has realized that one can make anything happen, if one has the nerve ..."

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  • "Roman anglais"
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  • "Littérature anglaise"
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  • "Fiction"
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  • "Sedam sestrica"
  • "空床日记 = The Seven sisters"
  • "空床日记"
  • "The Seven Sisters"
  • "Kong chuang ri ji = The Seven sisters"
  • "Kong chuang ri ji"
  • "The Seven sisters"
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  • "The seven sisters"
  • "Seven sisters : fibre works arising from the West"

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