Jessica Speight is a talented young woman who studied Anthropology in the London of the sixties, but any foresight about her future is seriously compromised when, as a result of a relationship with a married teacher, she becomes pregnant and must face, in isolation, the repercussions of Your decision to have the baby. A decision that will change her life, especially when it becomes clear that her daughter Anna is not the same as the other children: Anna will be an eternal girl, a girl of pure gold, always innocent and cheerful, but in need of attentions and continuous care. But it will also be a beneficial presence, a node that will articulate a whole series of tremendously positive relationships and affections around you. To tell this is to say it all and say nothing, because Drabble, at the height of her gifts as a writer, turns this story into an emotional book, unforgettable, full of empathy, narrative intelligence and a profound existential wisdom. A reading that, like the best literature, is also revelation and life. Narrated from the point of view of a friend of Jessica, The girl of pure gold offers us poignant reflections on responsibility, motherhood, friendship, the feminine condition, independence, sacrifice, social changes, self- Old age and loneliness. And also about the always imprecise and changing ideas about "normality." Both Drabble and the characters in the novel seem to want to emphasize our condition as infinitely fragile and helpless beings, thrown into the chaotic waters of Time.