The pure gold baby
By: Margaret Drabble
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780544158900
Subjects: Motherhood; Children with disabilities; Mothers of children with disabilities; Women anthropologists; FICTION / Literary; Fiction
Description: Her promising career in 1960s London interrupted by an affair with a married professor that renders her a single mother, Jessica Speight faces wrenching questions about responsibility, potential, and compassion when her sunny child reveals unique needs.