A throw-away line from her novel, ‘The Peppered Moth’ |<\/p>\n
‘Bessie is a widow now, and she and Chrissie are … pretending to watch BBC nine o’clock news. (Bessie refuses, in company, to acknowledge the existence of commercial channels, though she has occasionally and inadvertently betrayed her acquaintance with them.)’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A throw-away line from her novel, ‘The Peppered Moth’ | ‘Bessie is a widow now, and she and Chrissie are … pretending to watch BBC nine o’clock news. (Bessie refuses, … Continue reading “More Margaret Drabble….”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[253,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drabble-margaret","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t