Margaret Forster

Memory Box (2000)

This is the first Margaret Forster book I have come across and I have to admit that I was intrigued by the title immediately. The idea of stumbling across a box full of memories made for you from a mother who was near to death in your infancy works well as a hook. This is what Catherine Musgrave ...

Is There Anything You Want? (2006)

Keeping the World Away (2007)

I expect a book by Margaret Forster to be good and this one is no exception. It is essentially the story of a painting, a variant of Gwen John s The Corner of the Artist s Room in Paris , as over the years it passes from one woman to another. I knew very little about Gwen John before I read Keep...