Margaret Forster Forfatter
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How to Measure a Cow (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Desperate to escape herself and her past, she changes her name, packs up her London home and moves to a town in the North of England where she knows no one. And as hard as Tara... Læs mere
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Diary of an Ordinary Woman (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Margaret Forster presents the 'edited' diary of a woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentieth century. On the eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins to keep her... Læs mere
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Lady's Maid (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
London 1844, and a shy young woman has arrived to take up a new position in the grandeur of No. 50, Wimpole Street. Subtly and compellingly, Lady's Maid gives voice to Elizabeth Wilson's... Læs mere
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Good Wives (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The bestselling author of Hidden Lives explores four marriages, including her own, in different times and societies to find the answer. In 1848 Mary Moffatt became the wife of the missionary and explorer David Livingstone - and her obedience and devotion eventually killed her.
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Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a... Læs mere
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Diary of an Ordinary Woman: Against War (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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Precious Lives (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A brilliant follow-up to Hidden Lives, Margaret Forster's most personal book yet takes up the story of her gritty, northern father, Arthur, intertwined with that of her sister-in-law, Marion, who died of cancer at almost half the age of the 96 year-old Arthur.
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Seduction of Mrs Pendlebury (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Rose Pendlebury has little in common with her Islington neighbours. But when Alice and Tony move in next door with their enchanting toddler Amy, Mrs Pendlebury begins to come out of her shell, as gradually her new neighbours undermine her traditional, cautious privacy.
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Private Papers (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
To Penelope Butler the family was all, the sole ambition of her adult life. But when Rosemary discovers these private papers she is enraged by her mother's distortions of the truth and proceeds to tell the story from her perspective.
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Shadow Baby (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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. But there are, as she... Læs mere
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Isa and May (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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.
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Keeping the World Away (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Talks about the fictional adventures of an early 20th-century painting and the women whose lives it touches. This novel opens with bold, passionate Gwen, struggling to be an... Læs mere
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