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Book SynopsisBorn 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 London and the Lake District. She died in February 2016, just before her last novel,
How to Measure a Cow, was published.
Trade ReviewA brilliant exploration of choice and consequence * Mail on Sunday *
Enthralling... readers will plunge happily into the kind of family story for which Margaret Foster is celebrated and which she executes so well -- Anita Brooker * Spectator *
An unfailingly intelligent novel, full of lucid observation of a phenomenon, mother-love, too often seen through a gilded haze of false feeling and wishful thinking... Forster is a fine storyteller * Sunday Times *
Intricate, romantic and full of suspense * Observer *
An excellently funny, moving novel... a text for our times -- Auberon Waugh * Independent *
