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Powerful, dramatic and disturbing new novel about the long shadow cast by the memory of a dead mother ...
Born in Carlisle, Margaret Forster is the author of many successful and acclaimed novels, including Have the Men Had Enough?, Lady's Maid, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Is There Anything You Want?, Keeping the World Away, and Over, bestselling memoirs (Hidden Lives and Precious Lives) and biographies. She is married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies and lives in London and the Lake District.
A wonderful exploration by the bestselling and much loved author of Hidden Lives into what it means to be a wife, particularly a 'good wife', then and now, looked at through the lives and marriages of ...
'I rushed through this novel and enjoyed it enormously-what she experienced in her very 'ordinariness' was shared by thousands of real women of her generation' Val Hennessey, Daily Mail
'A compulsively readable account' A. S. Byatt, The Times
'Forster has a God-given gift for storytelling' The Times
'Beautifully written and a joy to read' Evening Standard
'This stuff of intimate family life is brilliantly presented, subtly and yet with unnerving directness' Susan Hill
'Wonderfully rich-Nobody explores the way we live with more intelligence, art or humanity than she does' Scotsman
'An excellently funny, moving novel-a text for our times' Independent
Like her acclaimed Have the Men Had Enough? Forster's latest novel is a characteristically compelling, clear-eyed, humane and heartbreaking novel about a taboo subject - and about what it feels like to ...