The Realms of Gold

Author: Margaret Drabble

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 9 April 2026 by Canongate Books (Canongate Canons) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Canons' series.

Paperback | 400 pages
197 x 139 x 27 | 270g

What do we owe to the past? What do we owe ourselves?Frances Wingate has it all, not least a flourishing career as an archaeologist and a razor-sharp mind. But when an old affair resurfaces - after years of on-again, off-again romance - she finds herself questioning everything she ever wanted out of life.

In The Realms of Gold, Drabble crafts a luminous story of love, purpose and regret, and captures the essence of what it means to be a woman at a crossroads.