The Realms of Chance: Encountering Margaret Drabble: A medical student’s fortuitous encounter with the renowned British novelist Margaret Drabble

While walking through northern London, a young medical student has the sudden epiphany that the famed novelist Margaret Drabble is somewhere nearby. Seeing a woman sitting before the front window of a townhouse, he posts a note to that address...and six days later, a letter arrives from Margaret Drabble herself.