| 31. | Drabble weaves a version of that skeleton into the novel, so that it deals genealogically with the fictional family.
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| 32. | Instead Drabble makes a cryptic reference to a place in Southern England where there is a view of two windmills.
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| 33. | Miles Nixon, who was previously a sous chef under Drabble at the main restaurant, headed up the kitchen.
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| 34. | But Drabble has the sense to take her time, and she relishes a good story as much as Wilson did.
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| 35. | At one point Drabble thought about writing a memoir, she said, as her husband recently did about his family.
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| 36. | Drabble's great talent has always lain in her ferocious eye for detail, and this book is no exception.
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| 37. | A "'drabble "'is a short work of fiction of around one hundred words in length.
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| 38. | The 2008 Festival included Tariq Ali, Martin Amis, Margaret Drabble, A . C . Grayling and Steven Berkoff.
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| 39. | The settings and themes of her novels link her to Fay Weldon, Pat Barker, Margaret Drabble and Doris Lessing.
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| 40. | "The Peppered Moth " is, by Drabble's description, " partly a memoir ."
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