The Seven Sisters (novel)

The novel largely follows Candida's evasive and sometimes deceptive representation of events, including an epistolary section which is her "computer diary".

Publishers Weekly called the novel a "clever new novel", writing that "Candida's evasive account accurately charts the psychological territory of one who is suddenly cast adrift.

"[1] The Guardian reviewer Natasha Walker writes that in this narrative "Drabble has managed to capture this sensation of insignificant life, but without forging it into significant fiction.

"[2] In comparison, reviewer Brooke Allen found the novel an accurate representation of middle age, concluding "Engaging the emotions and the intellect simultaneously and possessed of a rare technical ease, ''The Seven Sisters'' is an unusually satisfying novel.

[2] The Observer reviewer Anna Shapiro, had mixed feelings about the novel, writing that the protagonist Candida was not as well written as "the realised heroines of Drabble's magnificent books from the 1960s or 1970s.