The Dark Flood Rises
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Narrated by:
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Maggie Ollerenshaw
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Margaret Drabble
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The Dark Flood Rises asks momentous questions as it entertains and enthralls. In her beautifully imagined new book, Margaret Drabble is at her incisive best, exploring the end of life with her trademark humour, composure and wisdom.
Francesca Stubbs holds our hand as we take a walk through old age and death. Fran brings us to drinks with her dear friends, dropping off mouth-watering suppers for Claude, her ex-husband, warm and cosy in his infirmity. She visits her daughter, Poppet, holed up as the waters rise in a sodden West Country, and texts her son Christopher in Lanzarote, as he deals with the estate of his shockingly deceased girlfriend. The questions of what constitutes a good death and how we understand it preoccupy this glittering novel.
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- 27-11-2020
That dark flood
I think this is one of the most depressing books I have ever listened to but nevertheless I could not dump it. As a 74 year old I too think about ageing and dying BUT not all the time and the world does not seem as threadbare and grim as it is made out in this novel. The reader’s miserable voice doesn’t help. However it is a brave and unusual attempt to tackle end of life issues and there are bits of truth here and there.
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