Margaret Forster

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1965
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • Georgy Girl

    Georgy is young, gregarious and fun - she is also large, self-confessedly ugly and desperate for love. Georgy bears her fate bravely as she alternates between playing the fool and humbling herself before Meredith, her pretty, callous flatmate, althou...

  • The Seduction of Mrs. Pendlebury

    Stanley and Rose live in Rawlinson Road, Islington, surrounded by younger, smarter families like the Orams. Encroached on by age and affluence, the only answer to their problems, in spite of everything, lies in their fierce and prickly devotion to ea...

  • The Bride of Lowther Fell

  • The Travels of Maudie Tipstaff

  • Lady's Maid

    “Fascinating . . . The reader is treated to a revealing account of the passionate romance between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning through the eyes of an intimate observer.” -- Booklist Young and timid but full of sturdy good sense and awa...

  • Shadow Baby

    A powerful, moving story about motherhood, abandonment and guilt which casts a shadow across generations.
     
    Born in Carlisle in 1887, brought up in a children's home and by reluctant relatives, Evie, with her wild hair and unassuming ways, see...

  • The Memory Box

    Catherine's mother died when Catherine was just a baby girl, leaving nothing but her perfect reputation to live up to. Or so she thought. But then Catherine finds a box addressed to her, filled with objects seemingly without meaning - three feathers,...

  • Diary Of An Ordinary Woman

  • Have the Men Had Enough?

    What do men run away from? Not war, not physical hardship, but the day-to-day emotional demands of impossible domestic situations. That's women's work. This is a story of female courage, where black comedy turns to disturbing pathos revolving around ...



  • Mother Can You Hear Me?

    Angela Bradbury's 'Poor Mother' : delicate, humble, permanently disappointed, has made endless sacrifices for her family, for which they can never quite be grateful enough. 'You can't please your mother', as her father says. Even now, just one phone...

  • Battle for Christabel

    Rowena wants a baby. What she doesn't want is the baby's father. Yet five years after the birth of Christabel, Rowena is dead, tragically killed in a climbing accident. The battle for Christabel has begun... With signature skill, Margaret Forster re...

  • Private Papers

    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, w...

  • Significant Sisters

    Eight women who changed the world Caroline Norton * Elizabeth Blackwell * Florence Nightingale * Emily Davies * Josephine Butler * Elizabeth Cady Stanton * Margaret Sanger * Emma Goldman Significant Sisters traces the lives of eight women, each ...

  • Mother's Boys

    The attack on fifteen-year-old Joe Kennedy was particularly squalid and vicious. Sheila Armstrong's grandson Leo, usually a quiet, well-behaved boy, was found holding a knife. Harriet Kennedy cannot cope with her son's continuing pain; Sheila, who re...

  • Keeping the World Away

    Gwen, a bold and spirited young English artist, defies convention and sets out to study in Paris, where she has a tumultuous affair with the inspiring, controlling sculptor Rodin. But as the relationship cools, Gwen feels lonely and adrift as she awa...

  • Over

    Don and Louise's eighteen-year-old daughter Miranda has died in a sailing accident. While Louise takes steps to move on with her life, Don cannot come to terms with the chain of events that led to her death. Instead, he is determined to bring someone...

  • Isa & May

    Isamay's unusual name comes from her two very different grandmothers, Isa and May, who were both present at her birth and who have both formed and influenced her whole life in very particular ways. Now almost thirty, Isamay is trying to write a thesi...

  • The Unknown Bridesmaid. by Margaret Forster

    When Julia was eight, she was asked to be a bridesmaid at her beautiful cousin Iris's wedding. Her mother saw this as a chore, but Julia was thrilled. When the time came, even the fact that her bridesmaid's dress didn't fit, and was plain cream rathe...

  • The Unknown Bridesmaid

    A child psychologist struggles to come to grips with her own dark childhood memories, in this “mesmerizing, unsettling novel” (The New York Times).When eight-year-old Julia was asked to be a bridesmaid at her cousin’s wedding, she was thrilled....



  • How to Measure a Cow

  • Isa and May

  • Mothers' Boys

  • Is There Anything You Want?

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    What do Mrs H., Rachel, Edwina, Ida, Sarah, Dot, Chrissie have in common? They're all women, but they're fat, thin, old, young, married or single - and appear as diverse as human nature can be. But they are all survivors. This enthralling novel follo...

  • Precious Lives

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Margaret Forster has published 24 books.

Margaret Forster does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Isa and May, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Margaret Forster, Georgy Girl, was published in January 1965.

No. Margaret Forster does not write books in series.
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