| 21. | Like many of Drabble's other heroines, Candida is searching for something to believe in.
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| 22. | The plot thickens with the arrival of schemers and dreamers with names like Phineas Pickler and Horatio Drabble.
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| 23. | Not often do literary biographies encourage readers to laugh aloud, but Drabble's book repeatedly does.
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| 24. | In Drabble's case, after Cambridge, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company as an actress.
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| 25. | Drabble abruptly changes the point of view, and we are meant to doubt all that came before.
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| 26. | To Drabble, her mother was a difficult and unpredictable person : " She would shout at us.
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| 27. | Progress, Drabble reminds us, comes in small steps, one and a half forward, one back.
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| 28. | One of them was Margaret Drabble, who was inspired by Wilson's example long before she met him.
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| 29. | Celebrated authors like Banks, Jacques Derrida and Margaret Drabble are featured side by side with lesser-known artists.
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| 30. | Drabble's mother had been a star pupil in her local school in Sheffield and went to Cambridge University.
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