The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble

• San Francisco Public Library, USA
  

Publisher of Nominated Edition
Harcourt ISBN 0151011060

200 years after being plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea, the Red Queen's ghost decides to set the record straight about her extraordinary existence - and Dr Babs Halliwell, with her own complicated past, is the perfect envoy. Why does the Red Queen pick Babs to keep her story alive, and what else does she want from her?

A terrific novel set in 18th century Korea and the present day, The Red Queen is a rich and atmospheric novel about love, and what it means to be remembered.

Margaret Drabble, born in Sheffield in 1939, is the author of many novels including A Summer Bird-Cage, The Waterfall, The Needle's Eye, A Natural Curiosity, The Witch of Exmoor and The Peppered Moth. She was awarded the CBE in 1980. Margaret is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd and lives in London.