Novelist Margaret Drabble, author of “A Summer Bird Cage” and “The Sea Lady,” has decided to retire from the novel-writing business.
Drabble has written 17 novels during 46 productive years, the Telegraph reports. The paper speculated that the novelist wanted to spend time with her husband, author Sir Michael Holroyd.
Here’s more from the article: “Although it’s not inhibited many of the country’s best-known writers, Dame Margaret Drabble is to give up writing novels because she is worried about becoming repetitive. ‘The older I get the more I find myself repeating things,’ Dame Margaret has told friends. ‘So I have resolved to write no more novels.'” (Via Book Bench)