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Margaret Drabble
The Pattern in the Carpet [EPUB ebook]
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 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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Format EPUB ● Pages 320 ● ISBN 9781786899729 ● Publisher Canongate Books ● Published 2020 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 7418510 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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