TY - BOOK AU - Drabble,Margaret TI - The dark flood rises SN - 9781925355307 U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Melbourne, Vic. PB - The Text Publishing Company KW - Old age KW - Fiction KW - Families KW - Death N2 - Francesca Stubbs holds our hand as we take a walk through old age and death. Fran brings us to drinks with her dear friends, dropping off mouth-watering suppers for Claude, her ex-husband, warm and cosy in his infirmity. She visits her daughter, Poppet, holed up as the waters rise in a sodden West Country, and texts her son Christopher in Lanzarote, as he deals with the estate of his shockingly deceased girlfriend ER -