--- product_id: 44823613 title: "The Seven Sisters" price: "SAR 54" currency: SAR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/44823613-the-seven-sisters store_origin: SA region: Saudi Arabia --- # The Seven Sisters **Price:** SAR 54 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Seven Sisters - **How much does it cost?** SAR 54 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.sa](https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/44823613-the-seven-sisters) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description When circumstances compel her to start over late in her life, Candida Wilton moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room, walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London--and begins to pour her soul into a diary. Candida is not exactly destitute. So, is the move perversity, she wonders, a survival test, or is she punishing herself? How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? What can happen, at her age, to change her life? In a voice that is pitch-perfect, Candida describes her health club, her social circle, and her attempts at risk-taking in her new life. She begins friendships of sorts with other women-widowed, divorced, never married, women straddled between generations. And then there is a surprise pension-fund windfall . . . A beautifully rendered story, this is Margaret Drabble at her novelistic best. Review: Finding the Super in the Natural - This is a spectacular book--but it may fool you, because it is quietly spectacular. It's basically about death and rebirth--spiritual death and rebirth--but you only find this out gradually. At first it just seems the (brilliant) musings of Candida Wilton, a fiftyish woman who has been dumped by her husband (who is the head of a pricy private school) for a younger model. She uproots herself for London--penniless (or almost), friendless, jobless, childless, skill-less, and, it would seem, futureless. Almost by accident, she takes a course on Virgil, then, thanks to an unexpected windfall, retraces part of Aeneas's journey from Carthage to the Sybil at Cumae. She takes with her five other women, some new, some old, and meets the astonishing Valeria; and these become the Seven Sisters of the title. But the Seven Sisters are also a part of London she can see from her shabby apartment; and also a constellation she can see through her slightly flawed living room window. And that's the way this novel works--by connecting. Connecting the past and the present, and building the future. By connecting unlikely people and building not only friendship but character. Connecting the present day with the ancient past and forming a huge perspective on civilization. Drabble's character is a triumph. Candida writes a diary that, unwittingly, turns into a kind of poetry. Surprisingly, poetry is not so much a matter of expression as of observation. And the book is full of unexpected twists and jolts--always moving into new thematic material, just when you thought it had finished. The last (very short) part is called "A Dying Fall." This seems apt and almost anticlimactic, except that it perfectly ties off and rounds out the main theme, which is: even the most mundane things are miracles; it is only a question of jumping the fences and noticing them. Review: Brilliant, 5 stars for style - This book needs to be read more than once to fully appreciate the complex twists and turns the author flawlessly leads the reader through. The basic story concerns a middle aged woman starting over after the failure of her marriage. It is the writing that makes it much more than that. I would have rated it 5 stars, but there are a few things that I found tedious. Maybe I need to read it a third time to see if I can find the point of them, I am sure it is there. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,929,891 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #11,347 in Psychological Fiction (Books) #14,539 in Women's Domestic Life Fiction #49,662 in Literary Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 3.8 out of 5 stars 473 Reviews | ## Images ![The Seven Sisters - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/715xk651UqL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Finding the Super in the Natural *by P***R on March 14, 2006* This is a spectacular book--but it may fool you, because it is quietly spectacular. It's basically about death and rebirth--spiritual death and rebirth--but you only find this out gradually. At first it just seems the (brilliant) musings of Candida Wilton, a fiftyish woman who has been dumped by her husband (who is the head of a pricy private school) for a younger model. She uproots herself for London--penniless (or almost), friendless, jobless, childless, skill-less, and, it would seem, futureless. Almost by accident, she takes a course on Virgil, then, thanks to an unexpected windfall, retraces part of Aeneas's journey from Carthage to the Sybil at Cumae. She takes with her five other women, some new, some old, and meets the astonishing Valeria; and these become the Seven Sisters of the title. But the Seven Sisters are also a part of London she can see from her shabby apartment; and also a constellation she can see through her slightly flawed living room window. And that's the way this novel works--by connecting. Connecting the past and the present, and building the future. By connecting unlikely people and building not only friendship but character. Connecting the present day with the ancient past and forming a huge perspective on civilization. Drabble's character is a triumph. Candida writes a diary that, unwittingly, turns into a kind of poetry. Surprisingly, poetry is not so much a matter of expression as of observation. And the book is full of unexpected twists and jolts--always moving into new thematic material, just when you thought it had finished. The last (very short) part is called "A Dying Fall." This seems apt and almost anticlimactic, except that it perfectly ties off and rounds out the main theme, which is: even the most mundane things are miracles; it is only a question of jumping the fences and noticing them. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brilliant, 5 stars for style *by A***S on March 27, 2014* This book needs to be read more than once to fully appreciate the complex twists and turns the author flawlessly leads the reader through. The basic story concerns a middle aged woman starting over after the failure of her marriage. It is the writing that makes it much more than that. I would have rated it 5 stars, but there are a few things that I found tedious. Maybe I need to read it a third time to see if I can find the point of them, I am sure it is there. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Uneven SPOILERS *by A***E on October 11, 2021* I enjoyed the first person accounts, but lost interest when she switched into third person, and then totally made up a portion in which the main characters daughter allegedly wrote about the protagonist’s death. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/44823613-the-seven-sisters](https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/44823613-the-seven-sisters) --- *Product available on Desertcart Saudi Arabia* *Store origin: SA* *Last updated: 2026-06-11*