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The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws
Margaret Drabble
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Description for The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws
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In The Pattern in the Carpet the award-winning and beloved writer Margaret Drabble explores her own family story alongside the history of her favourite childhood pastime - the jigsaw. The result is an original and moving personal history about remembrance, growing older, the importance of play and the ways in which we make sense of our past by ornamenting our present.
In The Pattern in the Carpet the award-winning and beloved writer Margaret Drabble explores her own family story alongside the history of her favourite childhood pastime - the jigsaw. The result is an original and moving personal history about remembrance, growing older, the importance of play and the ways in which we make sense of our past by ornamenting our present.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786899712
SKU
9781786899712
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Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Margaret Drabble
Dame Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of eighteen novels including A Summer Bird-Cage, The Millstone, The Peppered Moth, The Red Queen, The Sea Lady and most recently, the highly acclaimed The Pure Gold Baby. She has also written biographies, screenplays and was the editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature. She was appointed CBE in 1980, and made DBE in the 2008 Honours list. She was also awarded the 2011 Golden PEN Award for a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature. She is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd.
Reviews for The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws
Engrossing . . . Blends family history and reflection with social and cultural history to reveal the novelist's passion for jigsaws . . . Moving and candid . . . Fascinating
Observer
A mature overview of a lifetime spent fitting objects together in various ways before breaking them up and beginning all over again
Guardian
Touchingly human and often wise . . . a book with such enthusiasm for its subject matter that it makes you long to embark on your own jigsaw
Telegraph
Throws poignant light on the difficult jigsaw of human life - and on how to shed harmful thought patterns and reassemble them into something less destructive
Anita Sethi
Independent
Part memoir, part rigorously researched historical perspective, Drabble's book is a multi-layered look at jigsaw puzzles and their role through the ages for society, individuals and herself; it's also a charming homage to Drabble's beloved Auntie Phyl, who passed her lifelong love of jigsaws on to Drabble
Publishers Weekly
Gently illuminating . . . An evocative study in memory and the techniques used to reconstruct it . . . A dab hand at fiction and editorship comes through once more, this time with a chockablock memoir fitted under the rubric of pastimes
Kirkus Reviews
Observer
A mature overview of a lifetime spent fitting objects together in various ways before breaking them up and beginning all over again
Guardian
Touchingly human and often wise . . . a book with such enthusiasm for its subject matter that it makes you long to embark on your own jigsaw
Telegraph
Throws poignant light on the difficult jigsaw of human life - and on how to shed harmful thought patterns and reassemble them into something less destructive
Anita Sethi
Independent
Part memoir, part rigorously researched historical perspective, Drabble's book is a multi-layered look at jigsaw puzzles and their role through the ages for society, individuals and herself; it's also a charming homage to Drabble's beloved Auntie Phyl, who passed her lifelong love of jigsaws on to Drabble
Publishers Weekly
Gently illuminating . . . An evocative study in memory and the techniques used to reconstruct it . . . A dab hand at fiction and editorship comes through once more, this time with a chockablock memoir fitted under the rubric of pastimes
Kirkus Reviews