The gripping final novel from the much-loved & bestselling Margaret Forster
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 London and the Lake District. She died in February 2016, just before her last novel, How to Measure a Cow, was published.
The work of a novelist in her prime… The narrative is taut and
suspenseful, the characterization complex and dynamic.
*Guardian*
Brilliantly drawn… Atmosphere and characters linger long after the
novel ends
*Sunday Times*
Deft, intriguing and gripping. Forster never disappoints.
*Woman & Home*
This is Margaret Forster's last novel, sadly, and it's full of
reminders of what made her such a shrewd and arresting chronicler
of women’s lives
*Mail on Sunday*
An exemplary final work … wonderfully well-observed
*The Times*
It is Forster’s acute scrutiny of the economy of friendship that
hooks.
*Observer*
Her simple, direct prose never strikes a false note
*Independent on Sunday*
Amply displays her formidable talent as a storyteller, undiminished
to the end, and her marvellous ability to anatomise the lives of
her characters while still enabling them to emerge fully realised
in the reader’s imagination… The novel is a rich inquiry into the
nature of friendship… Forster is, as ever, brilliant at the telling
details that illuminate her characters’ inner lives… A fine last
novel by an outstanding writer, it will disappoint neither
longstanding admirers nor newcomers to Forster’s work. Above all,
it is a novel about the abiding human need to love and to be loved,
a need that Forster makes clear is beyond measurement.
*Financial Times*
Forster is very good at the slow reveal, gradually illuminating the
more questionable aspects of Tara's character as well as the crime
that changed her life. She's also brilliant on the complexities of
ordinary people, particularly women: the little ways they deceive
themselves, their quickness to judge and their clumsy determination
to be kind
*Daily Mail*
Quietly compelling.
*Sunday Times*
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