Margaret Forster, 1938 in Carlisle geboren, studierte Geschichte in Oxford. Sie hat zahlreiche Romane und mehrere Biografien veröffentlicht. Bei Arche erschienen zuletzt:
Ein Zimmer, sechs Frauen und ein Bild (2006) und Miranda (2007). Margaret Forster wurde mit verschiedenen Preisen ausgezeichnet.
Sie ist verheiratet, hat drei Kinder, vier Enkelkinder und lebt in London und im Lake District.
31 Ebooks von Margaret Forster
Margaret Forster: Unknown Bridesmaid
A child psychologist struggles to come to grips with her own dark childhood memories, in this "mesmerizing, unsettling novel" (The New York Times).When eight-year-old Julia was asked to be …
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Margaret Forster: Das dunkle Kind
Warum wird ein Kind schuldig? Margaret Forster erzählt in ihrem neuen Roman von der dunklen, rätselhaften Seite der Kinderseele. Die achtjährige Julia darf Brautjungfer sein auf der Hochzeit ihrer sc …
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€10.99
Margaret Forster: Mein Leben in Häusern
Frisch verheiratet und arm wie eine Kirchenmaus lebt Margaret Forster mit ihrem Mann auf engem Raum zur Untermiete. Der Vermieter ist ein exzentrischer alter Herr mit Geräuschphobie. Für Verliebte ei …
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Margaret Forster: Precious Lives
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 die …
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€12.99
Margaret Forster: Hidden Lives
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 mysterious visit shortly b …
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€11.99
Margaret Forster: Isa and May
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. N …
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Margaret Forster: Over
Don and Louise’s eighteen-year-old daughter Miranda has died in a sailing accident. While Louise takes steps to move on with her life, Don cannot come to terms with the chain of events that led to he …
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Margaret Forster: Keeping the World Away
Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over… This engrossing, beautifully crafted novel follows the fictional adventures, over a hundred years, of an early 20th-century painting and the women w …
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Margaret Forster: Memory Box
Catherine’s mother died when Catherine was just a baby girl, leaving nothing but her perfect reputation to live up to. Or so she thought. But then Catherine finds a box addressed to her, filled with …
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Margaret Forster: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written with reference to Browning correspondence only recently available, argues that the poet was a strong and determined woman largely responsible for …
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Margaret Forster: Rich Desserts and Captain’s Thin
In 1831 John Dodgson Carr, son of a Quaker grocer, set off to walk from his home in Kendal to Carlisle, determined to launch a great enterprise. Within 15 years, Carr’s of Carlisle had become one of …
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Margaret Forster: Georgy Girl
Georgy is young, gregarious and fun – she is also large, self-confessedly ugly and desperate for love. Georgy bears her fate bravely as she alternates between playing the fool and humbling herself be …
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Margaret Forster: Lady’s Maid
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 untold story …
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Margaret Forster: Is There Anything You Want?
What do Mrs H., Rachel, Edwina, Ida, Sarah, Dot, Chrissie have in common? They’re all women, but they’re fat, thin, old, young, married or single – and appear as diverse as human nature can be. But t …
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Margaret Forster: Have The Men Had Enough?
What do men run away from? Not war, not physical hardship, but the day-to-day emotional demands of impossible domestic situations. That’s women’s work. This is a story of female courage, where black …
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Margaret Forster: Battle For Christabel
Rowena wants a baby. What she doesn’t want is the baby’s father. Yet five years after the birth of Christabel, Rowena is dead, tragically killed in a climbing accident. The battle for Christabel has …
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Margaret Forster: Private Papers
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 e …
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Margaret Forster: Seduction of Mrs Pendlebury
Rose Pendlebury has little in common with her Islington neighbours. Her street has been invaded by young, confident, upwardly-mobile people without, it seems, a care in the world. She keeps herself t …
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Margaret Forster: Mother Can You Hear Me?
Angela Bradbury’s ‚Poor Mother‘ : delicate, humble, permanently disappointed, has made endless sacrifices for her family, for which they can never quite be grateful enough. ‚You can’t please your mot …
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Margaret Forster: Significant Sisters
Eight women who changed the world Caroline Norton * Elizabeth Blackwell * Florence Nightingale * Emily Davies * Josephine Butler * Elizabeth Cady Stanton * Margaret Sanger * Emma Goldman Significant …
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Margaret Forster: Good Wives
What is a ‚good wife‘? 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 t …
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Margaret Forster: Mothers‘ Boys
The attack on fifteen-year-old Joe Kennedy was particularly squalid and vicious. Sheila Armstrong’s grandson Leo, usually a quiet, well-behaved boy, was found holding a knife. Harriet Kennedy cannot …
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Margaret Forster: Diary of an Ordinary Woman
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 journal and vividly recor …
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Margaret Forster: Shadow Baby
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. Shona, born almost seventy years …
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Margaret Forster & Daphne Du Maurier: Daphne Du Maurier
The definitive biography of Daphne Du Maurier, one of history’s greatest psychological thriller novelists Rebecca, published in 1938, brought its author instant international acclaim, capturing the p …
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Margaret Forster: Unknown Bridesmaid
Only one person knows what happened that day Julia was the only person who knew what happened that day. But she didn t tell the police. And then it was too late.Now, years later, her secret looms lar …
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Margaret Forster: My Life in Houses
I was born on 25th May, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl. So begins Margaret Forster s journey through …
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Margaret Forster: How to Measure a Cow
Compelling taut and suspenseful Guardian Tara Fraser has a secret. 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 …
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Margaret Forster: Diary of an Ordinary Schoolgirl
23 February Results rolling in! Algebra, 6th = 74%. Not bad. Latin = 55% Thrilled! History top = 85% smashing! Geography, disgusting, 2nd = 67%. In 1954 in Carlisle lived an ordinary 15-year-old scho …
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€14.99
