Word: headleand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
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