A01=Margaret Forster
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anything you want
Author_Margaret Forster
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chick lit
contemporary fiction
diary of an ordinary woman
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hidden lives
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what men want
Product details
- ISBN 9780099478522
- Weight: 224g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 07 Apr 2005
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 reared Leo, cannot bear the lasting guilt. In a powerful and moving tale of suffering and forgiveness, the two women confront the complex range of emotions that motherhood entails.
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.
