The Pattern In The Carpet Margaret Drabble

The result is an original and moving personal history about remembrance growing older the importance of play and the ways in which we make sense of our past by ornamenting our present.

The pattern in the carpet margaret drabble. The pattern in the carpet takes as its organising motif drabble s lifelong love of jigsaws. Buy the pattern in the carpet. The pattern in the carpet. Margaret drabble weaves her own story into a history of games in particular jigsaws which have offered her and many others relief from melancholy and depression.

The pattern in the carpet by margaret drabble. In the pattern in the carpet she describes the history of this uniquely british form of meditation from its earliest incarnation in dissected maps which were used as teaching tools in the eighteenth century to the amazing variety of cut outs that have continued to amuse children and adults until the present. They give her licence if you like to wander. A personal history with jigsaws is an original and brilliant work.

The result is a. Margaret drabble is not afraid to write. For margaret drabble it is jigsaws that provide the filter. She was initiated into the pleasures of banging bits of coloured wood together by her mother s spinster.

In the pattern in the carpet the award winning and beloved writer margaret drabble explores her own family story alongside the history of her favourite childhood pastime the jigsaw. 9781843546207 from amazon s book store. And in recent years her work has become more direct with just enough artifice to make a tale hang together. The pattern in the carpet is a discursive loosely organized mix of drabble s memories some but not all of them having to do with solving puzzles and her accounts of her own research into the.

This book is to be sipped slowly chapter by chapter when a person feels the need to turn off cnn and sit down and have tea and conversation with a thoughtful articulate friend. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Review serena davies enjoys margaret drabble s the pattern in the carpet a passionate account of a life lived through puzzles.