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Keeping the World Away Margaret Forster

Keeping the World Away By Margaret Forster

Keeping the World Away by Margaret Forster


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Summary

Talks about the fictional adventures of an early 20th-century painting and the women whose lives it touches. This novel opens with bold, passionate Gwen, struggling to be an artist, leaving for Paris where she becomes Rodin's lover and paints a small, intimate picture of a quiet corner of her attic room.

Keeping the World Away Summary

Keeping the World Away by Margaret Forster

Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over... This engrossing, beautifully crafted novel follows the fictional adventures, over a hundred years, of an early 20th-century painting and the women whose lives it touches.

It opens with bold, passionate Gwen, struggling to be an artist, leaving for Paris where she becomes Rodin's lover and paints a small, intimate picture of a quiet corner of her attic room.

Then there's Charlotte, a dreamy intellectual Edwardian girl, and Stella, Lucasta, Ailsa and finally young Gillian, who share an unspoken desire to have for themselves a tranquil golden place like that in the painting.

Quintessential Forster, this is a novel about women's lives, about what it means and what it costs to be both a woman and an artist, and an unusual, compelling look at a beautiful painting and its imagined afterlife.

Keeping the World Away Reviews

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 *

About Margaret Forster

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.

Additional information

GOR001012437
9780099496861
0099496860
Keeping the World Away by Margaret Forster
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
20070301
352
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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