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Margaret Drabble: A natural curiosity. (1990, Viking) 4 stars

A wide angle view of English society in the 1980s

4 stars

Second volume of series. Best read in order.

I particularly liked it because it covers declining northern English industrial areas centred on friends, family and acquaintances of three people from there who later went to Cambridge University. A sociological and psychological take on the differences between classes and the psychological variety of people of all classes; aristocracy, professional, working, petit bourgois, ...