Rosamund – independent, sphisticated, enviably clever – is terrified ot true maturity. Then, ironically, her first sexual experience leaves her pregnant. In The Millstone, Margaret Drabble shoes how Rosamund faces up to a failed abortion and to the trials of unmarried motherhood. The Millstone is a remarkable study of emotional transition: direct, funny and deeply touching; compulsive reading of the highets order.