LIBROS DEL AUTOR: margaret forster

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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    Margaret Forster
    This biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning written with reference to Browning correspondence only recently available argues that the poet was a strong and determined woman largely responsible for her own incarceration in Wimpole Street. The author traces her life from her early childhood and adolescence and explores her marriage. She draws a picture of early Victorian famil...
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    24,37 €

  • Rich Desserts and Captains Thin
    Margaret Forster
    In 1831 John Dodgson Carr son of a Quaker grocer set off to walk from his home in Kendal to Carlisle determined to launch a great enterprise. Within 15 years Carr’s of Carlisle had become one of the largest baking businesses in the world -and is a by-word for biscuits to this day. Following his trail to Carlisle (where she herself was born and grew up) Margaret Forster bri...
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    23,57 €

  • Is There Anything You Want?
    Margaret Forster
    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 follows the ripples that go out into ordinary lives that have been changed by a shared experience all connected by the same hospital c...
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    23,84 €

  • Mothers Boys
    Margaret Forster
    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 co...
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    23,57 €

  • Significant Sisters
    Margaret Forster
    Eight women who changed the worldCaroline Norton * Elizabeth Blackwell * Florence Nightingale * Emily Davies * Josephine Butler * Elizabeth Cady Stanton * Margaret Sanger * Emma GoldmanSignificant Sisters traces the lives of eight women each of whom pioneered vital changes in the spheres of law education the professions morals or politics: the first woman doctor the pionee...
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    23,39 €

  • Private Papers
    Margaret Forster
    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 with disastrous results. Penelope begins to record their family story as it unfolds. But when Rosemary discovers these private pape...
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    23,84 €

  • The Battle For Christabel
    Margaret Forster
    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 reveals the conflicting personal interests that lie behind each character’s claim on the child. Drawn from the perspectives of social ...
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    23,77 €

  • Mother Can You Hear Me?
    Margaret Forster
    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 call from Mother can send Angela spiralling into guilt self-recrimination and doubts over her own abilities as a mother. Worryingl...
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    23,73 €

  • Seduction of Mrs Pendlebury
    Margaret Forster
    Rose Pendlebury has little in common with her Islington neighbours. Her street has been invaded by young confident upwardly-mobile people without it seems a care in the world. She keeps herself to herself and only her husband Stan is aware of her bubbling anger her terrible prickliness and her ability to take offence. But when Alice and Tony move in next door with their e...
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    18,97 €

  • Hidden Lives
    Margaret Forster
    Margaret Forster’s grandmother died in 1936 taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so close to an illegitimate daughter without acknowledging her? The search for answers took Margaret on a journey into her family’s past e...
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    23,51 €

  • Precious Lives
    Margaret Forster
    A brilliant follow-up to Hidden Lives Margaret Forster’s most personal book yet takes up the story of her gritty northern father Arthur intertwined with that of her sister-in-law Marion who died of cancer at almost half the age of the 96 year-old Arthur. Margaret Forster’s father was not a man to answer questions - least of all questions about life and death so she attem...
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    22,66 €