A Goddess in the Stones Ravan Press Margaret Drabble has retreated from

Margaret Drabble has retreated from the public scene of The Ice Age to pursue some of the more domestic preoccupations of her early work

in strict violation of the terms of neutrality

It is with some trepiditation that Meredith Mitchell returns to the Cotswolds: the Bamford district holds memories that

"A blood-soaked modern fairytale brimming with magic

whom Joyce Carol Oates has called 'one of the most original and consistently exciting of North American poets'

A Goddess in the Stones Ravan Press Margaret Drabble has retreated fromNorman Lewis avoids the easy pleasures of travelling through the hill forts of Rajasthan, visiting palace hotels and the Taj Mahal. Instead his travels in India begin in the impoverished, overpopulated and corrupt state of Bihar the scene of a brutal caste war between the untouchables and higher caste gangsters. From these violent happenings, he heads down the west coast of Bengal and into the highlands of Orissa to testify to the life of the