Harvest Book The Witch of Exmoor, (Paperback)

from RealLifeReading

My first Margaret Drabble! I liked how it opened with a family dinner, as I'm a sucker for books that feature food. It takes a while for us to actually meet the 'witch', that is, Freida Palmer, the matriarch of the family who has just moved into a ruin of a house in Exmoore, as quite a bit of the...

from arubabookwoman

The eponymous witch of this novel is Frieda, a feminist best-selling author who has recently sold her family home and moved to a remote and crumbling mansion by the sea to write her memoirs. Her family thinks she has lost her marbles, and worries about her testamentary intent. Frieda's most recen...

from wandering_star

This book looks at the dynamics of a well-off family after the mother - always on the eccentric side - moves to a crumbling house on the edge of a cliff, and starts to cut herself off from her offspring. The book is pretty blistering about the lives of the "chattering classes" (a term I hate, but...

from JaneReading

Only a writer as talented smart and disciplined as Margaret Drabble could make a story like this eminently readable, compelling, brilliant, and uplifting. About once a year, I indulge in another Margaret Drabble novel - usually a re-reading, because I have always gobbled them up when published or...

from lauriebrown54

'The Witch of Exmoor' begins with the adult children of Frieda Haxby Palmer having a weekend together for the purpose of deciding what to do about their mother. She has, they feel, lost her mind or gone senile. The problem is, there is not one sign that she is incompetent, except by the standards...