Published by Vintage, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Author:
Margaret Forster
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099455622
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EAN: 9780099455622
Published: 7 Oct 2004
To Penelope Butler the family was all, the sole ambition of her adult life. Three of her four daughters, however, had different ideas. Rosemary rejected it; Jess was destroyed by it; Celia found it eluded her. Only Emily pursued her mother's ideal, with disastrous results.
Penelope begins to record their family story as it unfolds. 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. From D-Day on into the turbulent post-war years, a picture emerges not only of a single family in all its complexities, but also of the changing world that shaped their lives.
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A brilliant, sometimes terrible novel about the generation war within a family, as witty and cool as it is heart-rending
- Daily Mail
Painful...gripping...her 'private' story reaches far beyond the merely personal
- Observer
Margaret Forster is 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?, Over and Isa and May, as well as bestselling memoirs (Hidden Lives and Precious Lives) and biographies. She is married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies and lives in London and the Lake District.
