4 omniscient narrator in the later works.However,this is omniscience with a difference for often this voice dis- claims total knowledge."Even omniscience has its limits, says the narrator of THE REALMS OF GOLD.Or the narrator may acknowledge an inability to understand a particular character or to know what is going to happen to some characters in the future but to know exactly what happens to others.Altogether this voice entices us with honesty and also alters our traditional perception of what omni- science can be.In addition,the novels are never heavily orchestrated toward an intense climactic moment of resolu- tion,so much as they are the harmonizing of various events presented in the novel with the promise of con- tinuations into as yet undeveloped events of the future. Characters do not change significantly in the process of the present time of the novel so much as they look back into the past to see how those events have created the present.So another reason to read Drabble is to discover what one contemporary writer is doing with structure and with point-of-view and also to see why some critics argue that Drabble is a post-modernist,rather than a traditionalist. In addition to the person who just wants to read a good story,the person who wants to read social history, the person who is interested in what women writers are