The Millstone

About The Millstone

Margaret Drabble's The Millstone (1965) follows Rosamund Stacey, a successful young Oxford-educated academic in 1960s London who becomes pregnant after a single encounter and decides, out of stubbornness and independence, to keep the child and manage entirely alone. One of the defining novels of postwar British women's fiction and a sharp portrait of a certain kind of English intellectual woman.