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    Drabble’s ‘Pattern in the Carpet’ pieces her life into history of jigsaw puzzles  Oct 4, 2009
    Margaret Drabble weaves memoir into history of games ... During a distinguished 46-year career, Margaret Drabble has written 17 novels and two literary biographies, edited two editions of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, and compiled a volume of writings about English landscape ... THE PATTERN IN THE CARPET: A Personal History with Jigsaws By Margaret Drabble. (Boston Globe)

    How to solve life's greatest puzzles  Jul 11, 2009
    The Pattern In The Carpet: A Personal History With Jigsaws By Margaret Drabble Atlantic Books, 352pp, $49 ... WHAT a puzzle: Margaret Drabble's memoir-cum-history of the jigsaw-cum-paean to her rather dull aunt shouldn't really work ... Margaret Drabble … comfort in a jigsaw. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    Christopher Nolan, Irish novelist, dies at 43  Feb 22, 2009
    As novelist Margaret Drabble noted, the book was "not merely another tale of brave strife against odds," adding that Nolan was "a writer, a real writer who uses words with an idiosyncratic new-minded freshness.". Nolan disliked sentimental stories about his disability. (MSNBC -- International)




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