Forster, Margaret.

The Park.

London, Secker & Warburg, 1968. 13 cm x 20.3 cm. 208 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Content is clean with light foxing to edges. Light discolouration to boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Front endpaper contains previous owner’s stamp.

The Park by Margaret Forster:

The setting for Margaret Forster’s brilliant new comedy of bourgeois manners is a suburb somewhere in London; its chief characters are six women, and their meeting place is the local park. But for a long while they scarcely meet. The odd word now and again, and that is all. Each woman is semi-detached; each in their various ways, frustrated, bored, unhappy. Then one of their children is drowned in the park’s pond, and the tragedy brings them temporarily together. For a brief while a sympathetic band of sisters, they soon break apart in mutual recrimination. In the end each woman finds satisfaction, perhaps happiness of a sort- but, with one exception, far away from the suburb where they had met. The park will know them no more. (From book notes)

Margaret Forster (1938 – 2016) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and literary critic. She is best known for her 1965 novel Georgy Girl, which was made into a successful film of the same name and inspired a hit song by The Seekers, as well as her 2003 novel Diary of an Ordinary Woman; her biographies of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; and her memoirs Hidden Lives and Precious Lives. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Fiction · Fiction in English · Novel · Novelist · Novelists, English
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0436161036
• Inventory Number: 200306AB

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