Margaret Drabble

Tickets £10 Chaired by Giles Waterfield What is the creative urge that compels some writers to publish memoirs and diaries, and what makes some of these books masterpieces of English literature? Frances Partridge, a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, was one of the great British diarists of the ... (more)20th century. Her biographer,Anne Chisholm, reveals the spaces between the words. Renowned author Margaret Drabble has written a very original memoir, The Pattern in the Carpet, which pieces together the part that jigsaw puzzles play in her life.Anne Chisholm has written lives of Nancy Cunard and Rumer Godden. Margaret Drabble's most recent novel is The Sea Lady; she is also a biographer and critic. Giles Waterfield, a novelist and art historian, is the Chair of The Charleston Trust.