The Realms of Gold

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The Realms of Gold is thoroughly contemporary, an intelligent, artful, and affecting novel about modern people and modern disaffections * * Atlantic * * The Realms of Gold is a conspicuous pleasure to read - a cheerful reconciliation of the exactions of the past and the possibilities that lie just ahead * * Kirkus Reviews * * Praise for Margaret Drabble: I have learned so much from Margaret Drabble's work. Her prose is very beautiful, very funny, and at the same time very serious -- SALLY ROONEY One of Britain's most dazzling writers * * New York Times * * [Her] novels brim with sharply observed life and the author's seemingly infinite sympathy for "ordinary women" -- JOYCE CAROL OATES One of the most versatile and accomplished authors of her generation * * New Yorker * * Margaret Drabble's early novels were intimate and sprightly chronicles of the small dissatisfactions and small triumphs of young women like herself -- HILARY MANTEL * * New York Review of Books * * One of the most thought-provoking and intellectually challenging writers around * * Financial Times * * One of our foremost women writers * * Guardian * * The novelist who will have done for late twentieth-century London what Dickens did for Victorian London * * New York Times * *