Though often proclaimed a "woman's writer," Margaret Drabble is "ultimately concerned with larger philosophical and psychological issues"--the most important being the question of the human will. Moran sees Drabble's fiction as being "focused more on the problems which confront both men and women, of living in the bewildering contemporary world." It is a world of IRA terrorism, aborted fetuses, and suicide, but it is also a world of homecoming...