In one of this author's short stories, the sisters Penny and Primrose encou
In one of this author's short stories, the sisters Penny and Primrose encounter a monstrous worm after being evacuated from the World War II bombing of London. This author wrote a review criticizing the Harry Potter books for having "no place for the numinous," and included stories such as "The Thing in the Forest" in her Little Black Book of Stories. One of her novels concerns a family of Fabians, the Wellwoods, whose matriarch Olive is based on Edith Nesbit. Estranged for many years from her sister Margaret Drabble, her novels include The Children's Book and The Biographer's Tale. In another of her novels, the academics Roland Michell and Maud Bailey study the relationship between the fictional Victorian poets Randolph Henry Ash and Christobel LaMonte. For 10 points, name this contemporary English author of Possession.
In one of this author's short stories, the sisters Penny and Primrose encounter a monstrous worm after being evacuated from the World War II bombing of London.
Antonia Susan Byatt