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EPISODE · Jul 13, 2026 · 58 MIN

Margaret Drabble: The Great Good Places

from London Review Bookshop Podcast · host London Review Bookshop

Margaret Drabble’s new collection, The Great Good Places, is an omnium gatherum of essays, stories and memoir, drawing on a lifetime’s worth of insight and wisdom. ‘Generous, perceptive, and good-humoured, Margaret Drabble is always a delight to read’, wrote Joan Bakewell; The Great Good Places has all these qualities in evidence. Drabble was in conversation with Tessa Hadley, whose most recent novel is The Party (Vintage). You can buy a copy of The Great Good Places from the London Review Bookshop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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