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==Autobiography==
{{newreview
|author=Margaret Drabble
|title=The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Imagine the scene: a major publishing house receives the latest pitch for a book. Its basis is a history of the jigsaw, interwoven with a highly personal memoir of an ever so slightly irascible maiden aunt with whom the author partook in the delights of puzzling. Two words save this pitch from oblivion: Margaret Drabble. Faced with the same dilemma in a bookshop, the reader would be wise to follow the publisher's hunch and buy this book - it is a gentle delight from start to finish.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843546205</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Alice Taylor
