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In The Pattern in the Carpet the award-winning and beloved writer Margaret Drabble explores her own family story alongside the history of her favourite childhood pastime - the jigsaw. The result is an original and moving personal history about remembrance, growing older, the importance of play and the ways in which we make sense of our past by ornamenting our present.

The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws

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In The Pattern in the Carpet the award-winning and beloved writer Margaret Drabble explores her own family story alongside the... Read more

    Publisher: Canongate Books
    Publication Date: 07/05/2020
    ISBN13: 9781786899712, 978-1786899712
    ISBN10: 178689971X

    Number of Pages: 384

    Non Fiction , Biography

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    In The Pattern in the Carpet the award-winning and beloved writer Margaret Drabble explores her own family story alongside the history of her favourite childhood pastime - the jigsaw. The result is an original and moving personal history about remembrance, growing older, the importance of play and the ways in which we make sense of our past by ornamenting our present.

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