Born in Carlisle, 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? and most recently Over, 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.
An excellently funny, moving novel... a text for our times -- Auberon Waugh * Independent * Intricate, romantic and full of suspense * Observer * An unfailingly intelligent novel, full of lucid observation of a phenomenon, mother-love, too often seen through a gilded haze of false feeling and wishful thinking... Forster is a fine storyteller * Sunday Times * Enthralling... readers will plunge happily into the kind of family story for which Margaret Foster is celebrated and which she executes so well -- Anita Brooker * Spectator * A brilliant exploration of choice and consequence * Mail on Sunday *