Just reviewed 'The Needle's Eye' by Margaret Drabble at www.goodreads.com

Rose Vassilou inherited a fortune, and a family miserable enough to prove that love is more important than money. To make sure her children stay 'normal', she gives her fortune away and chooses poverty, only to have her own normality constantly questioned. When she meets overly-sensitive Simon, he instinctively understands her, and their relationship soon deepens. Yet Rose's selfish ex-husband wants his children back, and the one thing Rose can be sure to do is to put her own interests last.
By examining the ancient question 'Can you be both rich and good?', Margaret Drabble gives us a thoroughly modern and thoughtful look at money, love and marriage.
This is a book that does not date, whose odd characters and their stranger problems resonate through the readers' own life.