Book description
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 papers she is enraged by her mother's
distortions of the truth and proceeds to tell the story from her
perspective. From D-Day on into the turbulent post-war years, a
picture emerges not only of a single family in all its complexities,
but also of the changing world that shaped their lives.
Margaret Forster is 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?, Over
and
Isa and May
, as well as bestselling memoirs (
Hidden Lives
and
Precious Lives
) and biographies. She is married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies
and lives in London and the Lake District.
