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.
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 *