Download or read book The Pattern in the Carpet written by Margaret Drabble and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Pattern in the Carpet the award-winning and beloved writer Margaret Drabble explores her own family story alongside the history of her favourite childhood pastime – the jigsaw. The result is an original and moving personal history about remembrance, growing older, the importance of play and the ways in which we make sense of our past by ornamenting our present.