Margaret Forster
Author
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When Julia was eight, she was asked to be a bridesmaid at her beautiful cousin Iriss wedding. Her mother saw this as a chore, but Julia was thrilled. When the time came, even the fact that her bridesmaid's dress didn't fit, and was plain cream rather than the pink she'd hoped for, couldn't ruin the day. But after this, things began to go wrong for Julia, starting with an episode involving her cousin's baby, a pram, and a secret trip round the block....
Author
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
'I was born on May 25, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.' So begins Margaret Forster's journey through the houses she's lived in, from that sparkling new council house, built as part of a utopian vision by Carlisle City Council, to her beloved London house of today, via Oxford, Hampstead, the Lake District and a spell in the Mediterranean.
Author
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Tara Fraser leaves London to start a new life in a Cumbrian town selected at random. She plans to obliterate her past, which contains a shocking event that had serious consequences, by becoming a completely different personality from her previous volatile self. She is going to be quiet, even dull, and very private. But one of her new neighbours, Nancy, is intrigued by her. She wants to become her friend. Equally determined not to be discarded are...