SHADOW BABY - Hardcover

MARGARET FORSTER was born in Carlisle in 1938. She is the author of bestselling memoirs, Hidden Lives and Precious Lives, acclaimed biographies of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and of many successful novels, such as Lady's Maid, Private Papers & most recently Diary of an Ordinary Woman.

"A brilliant exploration of choice and consequence" * Mail on Sunday * "Enthralling... readers will plunge happily into the kind of family story for which Margaret Foster is celebrated and which she executes so well" -- Anita Brooker * Spectator * "An unfailingly intelligent novel, full of lucid observation of a phenomenon, mother-love, too often seen through a gilded haze of false feeling and wishful thinking... Forster is a fine storyteller" * Sunday Times * "Intricate, romantic and full of suspense" * Observer * "An excellently funny, moving novel... a text for our times" -- Auberon Waugh * Independent *