A review by bookishblond
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble

3.0

The other reviewers are right: this is a very strange book! The first half was the fictional account (based on real memoirs) of a Korean princess, as told by her ghost. The second half was a a third-person account of a modern woman (Margaret Drabble fictionalized) who reads the memoirs on a plane (the same words we read?) and becomes obsessed with or haunted by the dead princess. Certainly an interesting idea, but I'm not sure Drabble succeeded in writing her "transcultural tragicomedy."