Staring at the Sun Margaret Drabble To Rome's shame

To Rome's shame

Michael Paul

she is a dean at the divinity school - African-Americans living in 'the heart of whiteness'

They're not young

and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God

Staring at the Sun Margaret Drabble To Rome's shameStaring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides.