Keeping the World Away

Informationen zum Autor Born in Carlisle, Margaret Forster was 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? , Keeping the World Away , Over and The Unknown Bridesmaid . She also wrote bestselling memoirs – Hidden Lives, Precious Lives and, most recently, My Life in Houses – and biographies. She was married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies and lived in London and the Lake District. She died in February 2016, just before her last novel, How to Measure a Cow , was published. Klappentext Talks about the fictional adventures of an early 20th-century painting and the women whose lives it touches. This novel opens with bold, passionate Gwen, struggling to be an artist, leaving for Paris where she becomes Rodin's lover and paints a small, intimate picture of a quiet corner of her attic room. Zusammenfassung Talks about the fictional adventures of an early 20th-century painting and the women whose lives it touches. This novel opens with bold, passionate Gwen, struggling to be an artist, leaving for Paris where she becomes Rodin's lover and paints a small, intimate picture of a quiet corner of her attic room.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Forster, Forster Margaret
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.03.2007
• EAN: 9780099496861
• ISBN: 978-0-09-949686-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, FICTION / Sagas, FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Paris (City), Generational sagas, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Biographical fiction, FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th Century, FICTION / Multiple Timelines, Paintings and painting