The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble - 2004-10-04

*gift able-just let me know where you want it sent- hardcover excellent condition book itself beautiful white leatherette look- boards iridescent red titling spine-bumped head foot of book- minor edge wear on the book itself dust jacket is missing - initially first published UK by Viking designed by Linda Lockowitz printed in USA first US edition-alphabetical letters following - see pictures -maybe this will do it maybe it won't. you'll know by looking at the pictures, .Two hundred years after being plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea, the Red Queen doesn't want her extraordinary existence to be forgotten. Her long and privileged life behind the Korean palace walls was not all it seemed, and the Red Queen (or her ghost) is still desperate to retell her tale. Dr Babs Halliwell, with her own complicated past, seems the perfect envoy - having read the memoirs of the Crown Princess on the plane to Seoul, Babs has become utterly engrossed in her story. But why has the Red Queen picked Babs to keep her story alive, and what else does she want from her? ....Set in 18th-century Korea and the present day, The Red Queenis a rich, playful and atmospheric novel about love, about personal and public history, and what it means to be remembered...... -The Red Queen: A Transcultural Tragicomedy, Margaret Drabble-PublisherViking, 2004-ISBN0670915246, 9780670915248- 357 pages, -Subjects Fiction ' General British, Channeling (Spiritualism), Fiction / General, Korea, Loss (Psychology), Princesses, Queens, Women Scholars,Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa bmk 3 bib 2162