The Middle Ground Author:Margaret Drabble The middle years of Kate Armstrong are caught between parents and children and are free of neither. — Relentlessly good-natured, surprisingly successful, lapped by the affection of her children and friends and untidily folded into the clutter of her overflowing house, Kate is suddenly in her forties. Margaret Drabble takes Kate's predicament -- ... more »when Kate is forced to make a reconnaissance over the middle ground of her life -- and turns it into a wise and funny novel.« less