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Title	:	The Millstone
Author	:	Margaret Drabble
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	October 15th 1998 by Mariner Books (first published 1965)
Categories	:	Fiction. Feminism. Classics. European Literature. British Literature. Literature

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Margaret Drabble’s affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, is about a casual love affair, an unplanned pregnancy, and one young woman’s decision to become a mother. Rosamund Stacey is young and inexperienced at a time when sexual liberation is well on its way. She conceals her ignorance beneath a show of independence, and becomes pregnant as a result of a one night stand. Although single parenthood is still not socially acceptable, she chooses to have the baby rather than to seek an illegal abortion, and finds her life transformed by motherhood.

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Original Title:	The Millstone
ISBN:	0156006197 (ISBN13: 9780156006194)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Rosamund Stacey
Setting:	London, England(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1966)

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A millstone around your neck. Its a common enough idiom, meaning a heavy burden weighing you down; inescapable, and probably self-inflicted. It comes from the Holy Bible, Matthew 18:6:But whoso shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me, it were better that a millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.It is this quotation which Margaret Drabble said was the inspiration for the title of her third novel, The Millstone, originally published in



A millstone around your neck. Its a common enough idiom, meaning a heavy burden weighing you down; inescapable, and probably self-inflicted. It comes from the Holy Bible, Matthew 18:6:But whoso shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me, it were better that a millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.It is this quotation which Margaret Drabble said was the inspiration for the title of her third novel, The Millstone, originally published in

a meretricious pretence to profundity.Awesome phrase, beautiful concision and clarity.

Very peculiar. Quintessential scholar with not-so-great social skills gets pregnant by accident and is too shy, unassertive, and possibly conflicted, to terminate it in the early stages. Will she or won't she? Will she get dismissed from her position? Will she ever tell the father? Or even her own father?I'm not telling. It sounds like a good little mystery but it's more--it's an introspection. And quite a good one. In the progress of her problem, she comes out of her private little world and

London in the early 1960s is a place where casual sex is becoming acceptable, but having a child out of wedlock is not. Twenty-six year old scholar and doctoral student Rosamund Stacey is dating two men whose company she enjoys, but shes really not interested in getting physical with either one. She more interested in Elizabethan poets and her academic career. Then a chance meeting with a likable radio announcer leads to an invitation to her flat, and after her first and only sexual encounter

For a book written as long ago as 1965 this story of an intelligent single woman who finds herself pregnant is surprisingly modern and sympathetic, with a refreshing lack of traditional moralising. Its heroine Rosamund has an academic background similar to Drabble's and is cushioned by being able to live rent free in her travelling parents' London flat.In the first half of the book she drifts into a decision to keep the baby, and there is plenty of humour in the caricatured reactions of everyone