RADIANT WAY

It is 1979 and three old Cambridge friends are brought together at a party to celebrate New Year's Eve and the end of a decade. Esther, Liz and Alix first met in Cambridge in the early Fifties, a time when their futures held glittering promise, but with the dawn of the Thatcher era, everything changed. Now middle-aged, how will these confident women cope with the personal and professional challenges they will come to face? With Drabble's trademark vivid descriptions, subtle asides and sly comments, we enter a world of the wealthy, the successful in the media, academia, politics and medicine in the late 70s and early 80s. 504pp, paperback.