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The Red Queen

By Margaret Drabble
Series: Canons
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In The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble, an ancient Korean crown princess's memoir crosses time to influence modern life in unforeseen ways. The narrative intertwines the historical past with contemporary scholarly endeavour, exploring themes of identity, cultural legacy, and the resonant power of storytelling. Drabble intricately weaves the princess's reflections with a present-day British academic's journey, infusing the tale with rich historic and cultural insights.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy tales that weave together historical intrigue with contemporary storytelling. With its richly detailed narrative and exploration of identity and cultural heritage, it offers a captivating journey through time and personal discovery. Fans of thought-provoking fiction with deep character insights will likely find it particularly engaging.

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The Red Queen

Set between eighteenth century Korea and the present day, The Red Queen is a rich, atmospheric novel about love and what it means to be remembered

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The princess is taking her over, bodily and mentally. Dr Babs Halliwell is no longer herself.

A young girl is plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea. In her diaries, she chronicles the intrigues of courtly life and her own extraordinary existence.

Two hundred years later, the Red Queen's ghost haunts Dr Babs Halliwell, an Oxford academic obsessed with her memoirs and possessed by the many parallels with her own complicated past.

But why and how does she keep the Red Queen's story alive?

The inimitable Margaret Drabble offers a rich and atmospheric historical novel in The Red Queen, where the dead wander among the living and ask what it means to be remembered.

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The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble is celebrated for its beautiful, humorous, and serious prose. It is described as full of life, utterly gripping, and noted for its stylishly disguised feminist escapism. The novel is truly fascinating, absorbing the reader with intriguing formal puzzles and convincingly crafted bonds between its characters.

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ISBN: 9781838859749

Publisher: Canongate Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 July 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Canongate Canons

Edition: Main - Canons

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 236g

Pages: 352

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About the Author

Dame Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of twenty highly acclaimed novels. 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.

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