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1.		Keeping the World Away from Vintage Price: £5.99 Customer Review: This is a cleverly constructed book with the central motif the painting by Gwen John. As in the film 'The Red Violin' in which a violin moves across the world and across time frames,so too does the painting go from woman to woman, home to home and we follow its progress through a succession of... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		Daphne Du Maurier from Arrow Books Ltd Price: £6.99 Customer Review: This is a truly beautifully written biography. It is insightful and intelligent, and is one of the best biographies I have read.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		Over from Vintage Price: £5.99 Customer Review: the way in which Margaret Forster tackles the effect on a family of the death of a daughter was hauntingly real. Not the cheeriest of reads, but a fascinating study of how grief affects different people in different ways. Recently bereaved myself, I found it quite cathartic.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		Diary of an Ordinary Woman from Vintage Price: £5.99 Customer Review: I read this book while travelling on the trains and was just captured by the attention to detail and by the narrater's talent for recording - yes, this book is a diary and what a witty acount you get. I found it hard not to think about the accounts in the book and how I sympathised with the main... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		Good Wives?: Mary, Fanny, Jennie and Me, 1845-2001 from Vintage Price: £6.99 Customer Review: A really interesting read - and once again from Margaret Forster - in the most beautiful style. Not only can M Forster make anyone interesting, she continues to pick exciting, relevant and intriguing people to write about. The biography of Mary Livingstone was particularly thrilling for me, but... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir from Penguin Price: £6.99 Customer Review: Margaret Forster never does really find out what the hidden secrets of her family were, but she does write a fascinating account of the lives of the women of her family. Driven by the urge to rise above their situations, despite the endless drudgery of housework and child-care, they are also... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		Private Papers from Penguin Price: £5.99 Customer Review: I thought this story gave an insight as to how families cope with bereavement or perhaps more to the point it isn't until later life a child comes to recognise the true impact of a parent's death both upon themselves, their siblings and the surviving parent. The central character Rosemary, the... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		Have the Men Had Enough? from Vintage Price: £5.99 Customer Review: Don't expect a recipe of how to deal with Granny's dementia. But you can feel comforted by the fact that your thoughts are not taboo, as you will find them reflected in the views of the family members who care for Granny during her mental and physical decline. Mercifully hilarious in parts this... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		Lady's Maid from Vintage Price: £5.99 Customer Review: Fact and fiction are very close in this account of Wilson, Lady's Maid to Elizabeth Barrett Browning. There is an `afterword' at the end of the novel which personally I wish I had read first rather than at the end. It is worth reading as it separates the fact from fiction and helps with the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		The Memory Box from Penguin Price: £5.99 Customer Review: I read a short review of this book and decided to try it because I could identify with the subject. It is about a woman, Catherine, who's mother has died before she is old enough to remember her, which is exactly what happened to me. This is the first book that I have found dealing with this... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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