Margaret Drabble - The Witch of Exmoor

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A midsummer`s evening in Hampshire, deep in the country, and the Palmer family - Daniel, Gogo, Rosemary, their partners and their children - are coming to the end of an ejoyable meal. From this pleasant vantage point by the Aga they play a dinner-party game: what kind  of society would you be willing to accept if you didn’t in advance know your place in it?  But the abstract question of justice, like all their family conversations, is brought back to the more pressing problem of their famous and eccentric mother, Frieda, who has abandoned them and her old life and gone off to live alone on Exmoor.

Frieda has always been a powerful  and puzzling figure, a monster mother with a mysterious past. What is she plotting against them now? Has some inconvenient form of political correctness led her [unjustly of course] to favour her enchanting half-Guyanese grandson? What will she do with her money? Is the really writing her memoirs? And why has she disappeared? Has the dark spirit of Exmoor finally driven her mad?