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Margaret Drabble, sister A.S. Byatt have new books

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-"The Pattern in the Carpet/A Personal History With Jigsaws" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 350 pages, $25), by Margaret Drabble. "The Children's Book" (Alfred A. Knopf, 675 pages, $26.95), by A.S. Byatt: Over 1,000 pages of deft storytelling and odd, fascinating pieces of history are contained in new books by Margaret Drabble and her sister A.S. Byatt (Antonia Susan Drabble's pen name). They offer a range of subjects, including ceramic art, original fairy tales, women's liberation under Queen Victoria and the development of the jigsaw puzzle.
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The Pattern in the Carpet/A Personal History With Jigsaws (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 350 pages, $25), by Margaret Drabble. The Children\'s Book (Alfred A. Knopf, 675 pages, $26.95), by A.S. Byatt: Over 1,000 pages of deft storytelling and odd, fascinating pieces of history are contained in new books by Margaret Drabble and her sister A.S. Byatt (Antonia Susan Drabble\'s pen name). They offer a range of subjects, including ceramic art, original fairy tales, women\'s liberation under Queen Victoria and the development of the jigsaw puzzle.