'An extraordinary work . nothing she has written in the past quite prepared me for the depth and richness of The Needle's Eye ' - New York Times ' The Needle's Eye is that rare thing, a book one wishes were longer than it is' - New York Review of Books 'Praise for Margaret Drabble: One of the most thought-provoking and intellectually challenging writers around' - Financial Times 'I have learned so much from Margaret Drabble's work. Her prose is very beautiful, very funny, and at the same time very serious. Novels like The Millstone and Jerusalem the Golden have helped me to understand what great writing can be' - SALLY ROONEY 'She was one of the most assiduous chroniclers of female experience in Britain during that time. Drabble's work has always been characterised by astute social observation' - Guardian 'Each of Margaret Drabble's novels has been an extraordinary leap forward' - New York Times.