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Private Papers

Margaret Forster

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English
Vintage
01 December 2004
'This stuff of intimate family life is brilliantly presented, subtly and yet with unnerving directness' Susan Hill

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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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   181g
ISBN:   9780099455622
ISBN 10:   0099455625
Pages:   224
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Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General/trade ,  ELT Advanced ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Margaret Forster was born in Carlisle in 1938. She is the author of bestselling memoirs, Hidden Lives and Precious Lives, acclaimed biographies of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and of many successful novels, such as Lady's Maid, Private Papers & most recently The Memory Box.

Reviews for Private Papers

A brilliant, sometimes terrible novel about the generation war within a family, as witty and cool as it is heart-rending -- Auberon Waugh * Daily Mail * Painful...gripping...her ""private"" story reaches far beyond the merely personal * Observer *


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