Her first two novels, The Game and The Shadow of a Sun, went unnoticed, but she gained fame with a novel set during the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1978's The Virgin in the Garden.  
Her book Degrees of Freedom was the first serious study of Iris Murdoch.  Her first two novels, The Game and The Shadow of a Sun, went unnoticed, but she gained fame with a novel set during the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1978's The Virgin in the Garden.  FTP, name this sister of Margaret Drabble, best known for Still Life, Angels and Insects, and the 1990 Booker Prize winner, Possession.
Her book Degrees of Freedom was the first serious study of Iris Murdoch.  
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