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Have The Men Had Enough?
  • Published: 3 May 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099455646
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $29.99

Have The Men Had Enough?



'An excellently funny, moving novel...a text for our times' Independent

What do men run away from? Not war, not physical hardship, but the day-to-day emotional demands of impossible domestic situations. That's women's work. This is a story of female courage, where black comedy turns to disturbing pathos revolving around the rights of an indomitable woman

  • Published: 3 May 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099455646
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $29.99

About the author

Margaret Forster

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.

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Praise for Have The Men Had Enough?

A moving story, a condemnation of the way we treat our old friends and loves, a rage against the dying of the light

Philip Howard, The Times

A novel painfully full of feeling, and totally credible-the passion shines through

Isabel Quigly, Financial Times

A memorably touching story about the pressures on a family trying to do their best... A wonderfully accurate, powerful and even funny portrait

Graham Lord, Sunday Express

It is close to life in a way we hardly expect a novel to be, and finally very moving

Hilary Mantel, Daily Telegraph

An extremely skilful and angry novel...beautifully written

Anita Brookner, Spectator