Margaret drabble
[drab-uh l] /ˈdræb əl/
noun
1.
Margaret, born 1939, English novelist.
/ˈdræbəl/
verb
1.
to make or become wet or dirty
/ˈdræbəl/
noun
1.
Dame Margaret. born 1939, British novelist and editor. Her novels include The Needle’s Eye (1972), The Radiant Way (1987), and The Seven Sisters (2002). She edited the 1985 edition of the Oxford Companion to Literature
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