Over

Forster's tightly-focused, first-person narrative is utterly compelling and painfully convincing

Daily Mail

Superb... Forster understands the power of that left unsaid... an ordinary woman's story is made heroic by a writer's art

Sunday Express

Forster's scrupulous inspection of the clammy and repressive intricacies of domestic life is, as in so much of her discomforting fiction, a serious pleasure to read

Sunday Times

Forster's first person account of Lou's emotional exhaustion, her bleached anger at the ruthless egotism of her husband's grief, and her inability to discern the same essential failing in her own bitter self protectiveness is an impressive feat of observation and imagination

The Times

Over is a relentless, exacting novel that pushes into the heart of grief and suggests some narrow routes to recovery

Times Literary Supplement

Margaret Forster once again proves her ability to get under the skin of her characters

She magazine

Over is a gripping page-turner... a hauntingly rewarding read

Daily Express

Each sentence is sculpted to perfection. Like so many of Forster's novels, it leaves behind a sense of something both absent and profound

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