Staring at the Sun Margaret Drabble all three are drawn together

all three are drawn together in a final meeting

Is he really as reformed a character as he claims

They're not young

and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God

they travel by small boats from one island to another

Staring at the Sun Margaret Drabble all three are drawn togetherStaring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides.