Review: Drabble confronts old age in 'The Dark Flood Rises'

"The Dark Flood Rises" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by Margaret Drabble

A car races along a British motorway. The driver, Fran Stubbs, is gainfully employed in her 70s - in fact, an expert in her field - on her way to a conference on housing for the elderly.

She is ...
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