The Unknown Bridesmaid - Couverture rigide

Forster, Margaret

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0701188057 ISBN 13 : 9780701188054

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 2013

Synopsis

When Julia was eight, she was asked to be a bridesmaid at her beautiful cousin Iris' 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.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Praise for The Unknown Bridesmaid

"For anyone who hasn't had the plesaure of reading Forster before, The Unknown Bridesmaid is one of her best."
—The Guardian

"The book it most reminded me of was Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending. There is the same sense of psychological detective story, of piecing together the fragments of an unresolved past. But unlike The Sense of an Ending, The Unknown Bridesmaid has a sustained momentum and a more satisfying resolution, while leaving enough unanswered questions to keep the mind ticking over long after the final page has been turned."
—The Guardian

"Margaret Forster is a brilliant and prolific writer... her latest novel is one of her best. It's a gripping read."
—The Observer

"Nobody is better then Margaret Forster, with her clear, calm prose, at delineating the fault lines of the ordinary, unexceptional and hidden lives."
—The Daily Express

"The stringent control with which Forster denies absolution is remarkable and, while disturbing, believable. That Julia remains unknown to all, not least to herself, is fascinating."
—The Independent

Quatrième de couverture :

Isa & May

'A compelling story, sometimes funny, sometimes painfully sad... All family life is here, messy, insistent and, as the author convincingly shows, as essential as breathing' Sunday Times

'A deliciously observed, dilemma-and-drama-packed read' Daily Mail

Over

'An impressive feat of observation and imagination' The Times

'Few authors share Margaret Forster's extraordinary ability to transform the ordinary day-to-day activities of unremarkable people into compelling fiction' Daily Mail

Is There Anything You Want?

'A very fine, continuously interesting, and often moving work, all the better because it is so firmly rooted in the ordinary world of everyday experience... far better than most novels that carry off prizes' Scotsman

Diary of an Ordinary Woman

'It may be fiction, but it's also -- convincingly, tragically, and often exhilaratingly -- real life' Independent on Sunday

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0701188057
• ISBN 13: 9780701188054
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240