The Radiant Way Author:Margaret Drabble "Ambitious and artful...Drabble reminds us why we still love to read." NEWSWEEK — Liz, Alix and Ester have been part of one another's lives since their Cambridge days twenty-five years ago. Liz is a successful psychotherapist, Alix is a wife and mother, still pursuing politics, and Esther is an academic. As we follow them through the next five y... more »ears we see their world changing around them, and we see each woman confronted with difficult, often painful, truths--about this new world, and more profoundly, about herself within it. a novel of extraordinary depth and feeling - an acute and passionate chronicle of our time - a beguiling combination of the contemplative and the concrete, the humorous and the dire. Tracing the lives of three Englishwomen, The Radiant Way is not only a story of individuals, but a vivid and penetrating portrait of an entire society.« less