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Isa and May by Margaret Forster
Category: Fiction
Margaret Forster, in this engaging, intriguing novel, about a young woman and two grandmothers, uncovers the shocking truths that family history reveals. The curiously named Isamay, a would-be academic, is trying to write a coherent thesis about grandmothers in history - from Sarah Bernhardt and George ...Show more
KEEPING THE WORLD AWAY by FORSTER MARGARET
Category: Fiction
Gwen, a bold and spirited young English artist, defies convention and sets out to study in Paris, where she has a tumultuous affair with the inspiring, controlling sculptor Rodin. But as the relationship cools, Gwen feels lonely and adrift as she awaits the ever more infrequent visits from her lover. At ...Show more
Keeping the World Away by Margaret Forster
Category: Fiction
Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over... This engrossing, beautifully crafted novel follows the fictional adventures, over a hundred years, of an early 20th century painting and the women whose lives it touches. It opens with bold, passionate Gwen, struggling to be an artist, leaving for Pari ...Show more
Lady's Maid by Margaret Forster
Category: Fiction
"Absorbing...Heartbreaking...Forster paints a vivid picture of class, station, hypocrisy and survival in Victorian society....Grips the reader's imagination on every page."-- SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEShe was Elizabeth Barrett's lady's maid. But "Wilson" was more than that. She was a confidante, friend and ...Show more
Mother Can You Hear Me? by Margaret Forster
Category: Fiction
Angela Bradbury has an appalling mother- self- effacing, self- sacrificing, expert at emotional blackmail. But in her relationship with her eldest and very difficult daughter, Sadie, Angela realises that she is imposing the same resentments and guilt that her mother inflicted on her.
My Life in Houses by Margaret Forster
Category: Biography
'I was born on 25th May, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.' So begins Margaret Forster's journey through the houses she's lived in, from that sparkling new council house, to her beloved London home of today. ...Show more
Over by Margaret Forster
Category: Fiction
This is a novel about what happens after a tragedy in a family. Not the tragedy itself but its aftermath, what's left when the tide recedes and it's over. First published 2007.
Shadow Baby by Margaret Forster
Category: Fiction
Born in Carlisle in 1887, brought up in a children's home and by reluctant relatives, Evie, with her wild hair and unassuming ways, seems a quiet, undemanding child. Shona, born almost seventy years later, is headstrong and striking. But there are, as she discovers, unanswered questions about her past. ...Show more
Significant Sisters by Margaret Forster
Category: History
Caroline Norton * Elizabeth Blackwell * Florence Nightingale * Emily Davies * Josephine Butler * Elizabeth Cady Stanton * Margaret Sanger * Emma Goldman Significant Sisters traces the lives of eight women, each of whom pioneered vital changes in the spheres of law, education, the professions, morals or ...Show more
The Battle for Christabel by Margaret Forster
Category: General Fiction
Rowena wants a baby. What she doesn't want is the baby's father. Yet five years after the birth of Christabel, Rowena is dead, tragically killed in a climbing accident. The battle for Christabel has begun
The Memory Box by Margaret Forster
Category: Fiction
A mother leaves her baby daughter a sealed box before she dies. Years later, Catherine opens it to find it full of strange objects, wrapped and numbered. As she tries to solve the mystery of the box Catherine is drawn to her mother?s story ? revealing a woman more complex, surprising and dangerous than ...Show more