Keeping the World Away by Margaret Forster

Keeping the World Away by Margaret Forster

Follows the fictional adventures, over a hundred years, of an early 20th century painting and the women whose lives it touches. This is a novel about women's lives, about what it means, and what it costs to be both a woman and an artist, as well as an unusual look at a beautiful painting and its imagined afterlife.

"* 'Few authors share Margaret Forster's extraordinary ability to transform the ordinary day-to-day activities of unremarkable people into compelling fiction' Daily Mail * 'Forster excels at depicting ordinary lives. In this beautifully controlled novel [Is There Anything You Want?], those who cannot articulate their emotional problems are eaten away by them.' Independent on Sunday * 'This [Is There Anything You Want?] is a very fine, continuously interesting, and often moving work, all the better because it is so firmly rooted in the ordinary world of everyday experience... far better than most novels that carry off prizes.' Scotsman * 'A latterday anatomy of melancholy written with insight, wit and tremendous style.' Spectator"

Born in Carlisle, Margaret Forster is the author of many acclaimed novels including Is There Anything You Want?, bestselling memoirs and biographies. She is married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies and lives in London and the Lake District.

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ISBN 13	9780701179823
ISBN 10	0701179821
Title	Keeping the World Away
Author	Margaret Forster
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2006-03-02
Number of pages	352
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