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A Natural Curiosity

by Margaret Drabble · 1989

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The insatiable passion to know drives virtually all the characters in A Natural Curiosity: Liz, united with her divorced husband to fnd their friend, Liz's sister Shirley, who learns the truth about their mother's life and death, and Alix, who visits with an imprisoned mass-murder and learns things she doesn't want to know.

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
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1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of thisBritishBritishMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
medium · 320 pages

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