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Without such choices, of course, a novel is inconceivable; no book can include everything. So Drabble's central characters again include the three women, friends since their days at Cambridge, who have dominated the trilogy -- Liz Headleand, Alix Bowen and Esther Breuer. But this time, most of the story belongs to Liz, a twice-divorced psychotherapist who lives comfortably in London's St. John's Wood. It is she who receives by mail an odd package containing notebooks, scrambled manuscript pages and what appears to be the skeletal remains of a human finger. She assumes that all this has something...
Three heroines, living in London and in their mid-40s when the decade of the 1980s dawns, provide a focus for Drabble's tumultuous plot: Liz Headleand, twice married and a successful psychotherapist; Alix Bowen, ditto and a believer in socially useful work like teaching English literature to female criminals; Esther Breuer, unmarried and a dilettantish specialist in the early Italian Renaissance. Although they have taken different paths, Liz, Alix and Esther share a long friendship and common bonds dating back to their student days at Cambridge in the 1950s. "These three women," Drabble notes, "it will readily and perhaps...
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