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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.Forster's style is easy and unpretentious. In a brief paragraph she can create a character we care about, a story we long to see resolved
- Sue Gaisford, Independent on Sunday
Few authors share Margaret Forster's extraordinary ability to transform the ordinary day-to-day activities of unremarkable people into compelling fiction
Daily Mail
A fine novel... an inspired reflection on the redemptive potential of art
Mail on Sunday
The characters are fully developed and differentiated...there is harrowing emotional insight; it also contains elements of real comedy
- Matthew Dennison, The Times
Her historical skills are, as always, matched by her marvellous empathy... A finely crafted novel
Sunday Times