The Garrick Year

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 | 208 pages
196 x 130 x 15 | 148g

Choked by domesticity and overshadowed by her husband's acting career, Emma is finding that life has reduced her to a supporting role. And when her husband lands his big break at a new theatre company, her want for something more boils over.

Quietly radical and fiercely intelligent, The Garrick Year is a sharp and merciless dark comedy about marriage, motherhood and the pull of ambition, told through the eyes of a complicated and fascinating woman at the very end of her tether.