The Gates of Ivory

Enlisting the help of another of his friends, beautiful, rackety Hattie Osborne, Liz begins to decipher the trail of the man who might once have become her lover.

“The Gates of Ivory is Margaret Drabble’s most ambitious novel to date. Taking up themes and characters from its two immediate predecessors, The Radiant Way and A Natural Curiosity, she unravels her plot, in scenes from St John’s Wood to Bangkok, from “Bayswater backwaters” to a bridge over the river on the border between Thailand and Cambodia … interesting, detailed, amusing and horrifying by turns” – The Times Literary Supplement