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Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) was an English author and playwright. Her many successful novels include Frenchman's Creek, My Cousin Rachel and Rebecca, famously filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940. Born in Carlisle, Margaret Forster was 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? , Keeping the World Away, Over and The Unknown Bridesmaid. She also wrote bestselling memoirs – Hidden Lives, Precious Lives and, most recently, My Life in Houses – and biographies. She was married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies and lived in London and the Lake District. She died in February 2016, just before her last novel, How to Measure a Cow, was published.Altogether a model biography - human sympathy tempered with honesty and spiced with real intelligence
- Lorna Sage, Observer
A startlingly good biography
The Times
Convincing throughout ... Margaret Forster's interpretation of her subject is so complete and so persuasive that it leaves nothing for the reader to do except admire and enjoy
Independent on Sunday
Forster's acute and sensitive book succeeds on many levels ... Its most important achievement is to disprove the highbrow assumption that bestsellers are shallow ... and do not ... engage the depths of the psyche
- John Carey, Sunday Times
Margaret Forster can do no wrong ... The story is as gripping as <i>Rebecca</i>, as full of surprises as<i> My Cousin Rachel</i> ... affectionate, honest, unsentimental and perceptive
Daily Mail