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Special gift: Margaret Drabble, who reads tonight at Harbour front, has just finished a novel set partly in Cambridge about three privileged women in their late 40s
Special gift: Margaret Drabble, who reads tonight at Harbour front, has just finished a novel set partly in Cambridge about three privileged women in their late 40s

Special gift: Margaret Drabble, who reads tonight at Harbour front, has just finished a novel set partly in Cambridge about three privileged women in their late 40s

Date10/19/1986
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Original Toronto Star caption: Special gift: Margaret Drabble, who reads tonight at Harbour front, has just finished a novel set partly in Cambridge about three privileged women in their late 40s.
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