Margaret Forster

My reader has been reading to me Margaret Forster's book about the houses she has lived in, 'My Life in Houses'. This was recommended by a Librarian and we are very much enjoying it. As I had never read any of her books before, I thought it was about time I tried some! I read right through one, 'Have the men had enough?' which I found was very slow moving - and that is apart from the fact that I was reading it in braille - but it was a very thorough study of a family dealing with an elderly grandmother with rapid onset dementia. Since then I tried her book, 'Is there anything you want?' but decided I could not be interested enough in the characters to continue. And now, I'm reading 'Precious \Lives', again in braille.

I have realised that, in order to appreciate her writing,I have to be prepared to read all the comprehensive detail she puts into her work. The more I have realised this, the more I am ... well, enjoying is the wrong word, I'm not sure what word to use, since it is a sort of commitment to hard work!


I was wondering whether others here are familiar with her work and what their opinions are of it. I looked her up on Wikipedia and was very sorry to hear she died in 2016, age 77.

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