Book description
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 enchanting
toddler Amy, Mrs Pendlebury begins to come out of her shell, as
gradually her new neighbours undermine her traditional, cautious
privacy. Mrs Pendlebury may not be ripe for transformation, or even
happiness, but she is not too old to change.
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.
