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The pure gold baby

ISBN: 9781443425360 (trade pbk.)
Physical Description: print 291 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Toronto : HarperCollins Canada, 2013.

Drabble, Margaret 1939- (author.).

Summary: Jessica Speight, a young anthropology student in 1960s London, is at the beginning of a promising academic career when an affair with her married professor turns her into a single mother. Anna is a pure gold baby with a delightful, sunny nature, but it soon becomes clear that she will not be a normal child. As readers are drawn deeper into Jessica's world, they are confronted with questions of responsibility, potential, even age, all with Margaret Drabble's characteristic intelligence, sympathy and wit.