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The Millstone

The Millstone
Margaret Drabble

The Millstone is a novel by Margaret Drabble, first published in 1965.

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“Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all. We disregard them, we say they forget, because they have not the words to make us remember.”

Margaret Drabble book The Millstone

The Millstone (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1965) p. 148

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