The issue of single mother or the marginal position of the unmarried mother provides a good perspective from which to consider changing gender roles and the values and institutions in society. A different kind of motherhood is dealt with particular reference to the contemporary unmarried mother narrative and to British women immediately before and after giving birth to babies. Margaret Drabble discusses in her novel how an unwed mother faces the problems but how still she is bold enough to bring out her baby without bothering about its real father. The woman stays away from her lover or ex-husband and becomes a single parent to her child.