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Born in Carlisle, Margaret Forster was 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, Over and The Unknown Bridesmaid. She also wrote bestselling memoirs ¿ Hidden Lives, Precious Lives and, most recently, My Life in Houses ¿ and biographies. She was married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies and lived in L...

Isamay's unusual name comes from her two very different grandmothers, Isa and May, who were both present at her birth and who have both formed and influenced her whole life in very particular ways.

Miranda, gerade achtzehn geworden, ist beim Segeln vor der niederländischen Küste tödlich verunglückt. Ein Unfall - viel mehr erfährt die Familie nicht. Mirandas Vater aber will sich nicht mit den Ermittlungen zufriedengeben und beginnt, auf eigene Faust nach dem Schuldigen zu suchen. Er wird unleidlich, vernachlässigt seine Familie, seine Arbeit in der Londoner Werbeagentur und schließlich sich selbst. Mirandas Zwillingsschwester hält es bald...

Now in paperback, this is the final novel from the much-loved and bestselling Margaret Forster, who died in February 2016. Tara moves from London to the North of England to try and escape her past, but she struggles to keep her old life at bay. 'An exemplary final work...' "The Times

A child psychologist struggles to come to grips with her own dark childhood memories, in this "mesmerizing, unsettling novel" (The New York Times).When eight-year-old Julia was asked to be a bridesmaid at her cousin's wedding, she was thrilled. Nothing, not even her mother's resentment of the expensive, inconvenient traveling, could dull her excitement. But when the day finally arrived and she took her cousin's baby on a secret stroll around t...

Churchill's Grandmama

Born in Carlisle, Margaret Forster was 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, Over and The Unknown Bridesmaid. She also wrote bestselling memoirs ¿ Hidden Lives, Precious Lives and, most recently, My Life in Houses ¿ and biographies. She was married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies and lived in L...

Subtly and compellingly, Forster gives voice to Elizabeth Wilson's untold story, her complex relationship with her mistress, Elizabeth Barrett, and her dramatic role in the most famous elopement in history. Reissue.

Fascinating . . . The reader is treated to a revealing account of the passionate romance between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning through the eyes of an intimate observer."-Booklist Young and timid but full of sturdy good sense and awakening sophistication, Lily Wilson arrives in London in 1844, becoming a lady's maid to the fragile, housebound Elizabeth Barrett. Lily is quickly drawn to her mistress' s gaiety and sharp intelligence, the ...

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. Attempting to restore her artistic vision and recapture her true self, Gwen pours out her soul onto a canvas, creating an intimate painting of a ...

A wonderful exploration by the bestselling and widely acclaimed author of "Hidden Lives" into what it means to be a wife, and particularly a "good" wife, examined through the lives and marriages of four extraordinary women in different eras, including her own. "...a fascinating and eminently readable account of these women's lives...raises many questions regarding the changing relationship between the sexes" "Spectator".

This engrossing, beautifully crafted novel follows the fictional adventures, over one hundred years, of an early twentieth-century painting, and the women whose lives it touches. 'Forster's style is easy and unpretentious. In a brief paragraph she can create a character we care about, a story we long to see resolved' "Independent On Sunday". Coincides with her new novel, "Over" (Chatto).

Catherine's mother died when Catherine was just a baby girl, leaving nothing but her perfect reputation to live up to. But then Catherine finds a box addressed to her, filled with objects seemingly without meaning - three feathers, an exotic seashell, a painting, a mirror, two prints, an address book, a map, a hat, a rucksack and a necklace.