As children, she and Shirley had hated Christmas, for it had marked them out for the lepers that they were: outcasts, treeless, without kin, without … - Margaret Drabble
" "As children, she and Shirley had hated Christmas, for it had marked them out for the lepers that they were: outcasts, treeless, without kin, without comfort, without presents, without past. She preferred the densely populated world she had created, with all its problems.
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About Margaret Drabble
Dame Margaret Drabble DBE (born 5 June 1939) is an English novelist, biographer and literary critic.
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