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Margaret Forster

(1938 - 2016)

Margaret Forster was born in Carlisle in 1938. She was the author of the bestselling memoirs, Hidden Lives and Precious Lives, acclaimed biographies of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and of many successful novels.

Novels

   Dames' Delight (1964)
   The Bogeyman (1965)
   Georgy Girl (1965)
   A Girl Called Fathom (1967)
   Travels of Maudie Tipstaff (1967)
   The Park (1968)
   Miss Owen-Owen is at Home (1969)
   Fenella Phizackerley (1970)
   Mr. Bone's Retreat (1971)
   The Rash Adventurer (1973)
   The Seduction of Mrs. Pendlebury (1974)
   Malowana lala (1976)
   Mother Can You Hear Me? (1979)
   The Bride of Lowther Fell (1980)
   Marital Rites (1981)
   Private Papers (1986)
   Have the Men Had Enough? (1989)
   Lady's Maid (1991)
   The Battle for Christabel (1991)
   Mothers' Boys (1994)
   Shadow Baby (1996)
   Rich Desserts and Captain's Thin (1997)
   The Memory Box (1999)
   Good Wives? (2001)
   Diary of an Ordinary Woman (2003)
   Is There Anything You Want? (2005)
   Keeping the World Away (2006)
   Over (2007)
   Isa and May (2010)
   The Unknown Bridesmaid (2013)
   How to Measure a Cow (2016)

Non fiction show

Margaret Forster recommends

Painter of Silence (2012)
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"She lays an image down so gently that it floats in the mind long after."

Salt (2007)
Jeremy Page
"Striking, funny, terrifying... I admired and loved it."

The Great Stink (2005)
Clare Clark
"Staggeringly evocative...a fine new novelist."

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