Book description
When Julia was eight, she was asked to be a bridesmaid at her
beautiful cousin Iris's wedding. Her mother saw this as a chore -
expensive, inconvenient - but Julia was thrilled. When the time came,
even the fact that her bridesmaid's dress didn't fit, and was plain
cream rather than the pink she'd hoped for, couldn't ruin the day. But
after this, things began to go wrong for Julia, starting with an
episode involving her cousin's baby, a pram and a secret trip round
the block.
A lifetime later, Julia is a child psychologist who every day deals
with young girls said to be behaving badly. Some are stealing, some
are running away from home, some are terribly untidy, some won't eat
or get out of bed. Julia has a special knack with these girls. She
understands which really are troubled, and which are at the mercy of
the way they are seen by the adults around them.
But one day, Julia's own troubled past starts to creep into her
present. And as she struggles to understand her childhood self, she
must confront the possibility that the truth may not be as devastating
as she feared.
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.
