Pure Gold Baby

Achingly wise . . . Admirers of Marilynne Robinson will find themselves very much at home in this book. Wall Street Journal. Jessica Speight an anthropologist in 1960s London is at the beginning of a promising academic career when an affair leaves her a single mother. Anna is delightfula pure gold baby. But as it becomes clear that Anna is not a normal child the book circles questions of responsibility potential even age with Margaret Drabbles characteristic intelligence and wit. Told from the point of view of Jess''s fellow mothersThe Pure Gold Baby is a movingly intimate look at the unexpected transformations at the heart of motherhood.