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There is much in my early novels about marriage. I got married in June 1960, three weeks after my twenty-first birthday, and just after taking my Cambridge Finals. I married my first love. Then I sat down to write my first novel, A Summer Bird-Cage, while expecting my first baby. So the subject of marriage was much in my mind as I began my career in fiction.
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Drabble, M. (2004). The Open Door. In: Salwak, D. (eds) Living with a Writer. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-07998-5_6
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