The Unknown Bridesmaid
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  • Published: 28 February 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448178452
  • Imprint: RH AudioGo
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 8 hr 28 min
  • Narrator: Sian Thomas
  • RRP: $19.99

The Unknown Bridesmaid

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28 Feb 2013
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28 Feb 2013
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There was a little girl, who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead ...

When Julia was eight, she was asked to be a bridesmaid at her beautiful cousin Iris’s 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.
  • Published: 28 February 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448178452
  • Imprint: RH AudioGo
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 8 hr 28 min
  • Narrator: Sian Thomas
  • RRP: $19.99
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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.

Also by Margaret Forster

Diary of an Ordinary Schoolgirl
How to Measure a Cow
My Life in Houses
Shadow Baby
The Memory Box
Isa and May
Over
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Praise for The Unknown Bridesmaid

Perfectly paced and with superbly drawn characters, this is a compelling story skilfully told

Choice

Nobody is better than Margaret Forster, with her clear calm prose, at delineating the fault lines of the ordinary, unexceptional and hidden lives

Jennifer Selway, Daily Express

Margaret Forster is a brilliant and prolific writer... her latest novel is one of her best... The book it most reminded me of, curiously enough, was Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending... Barnes, of course, won the Booker for his novel. I hope that Margaret Forster gets the recognition she deserves for this one

Elizabeth Day, Observer

There is no one to match [Forster] for the way her assured,subtle and careful prose can detail the insecurities, torments and problems of what are, to all surface appearances, just nondescript, unremarkable and often half-lived lives

The Lady

Margaret Forster has a deft and idiosyncratic touch

Penelope Lively, Spectator

A story which becomes steadily more gripping

WI Magazine

Remarkable…disturbing…fascinating

Independent

Makes such uncomfortable reading that at times you can barely turn the page, but it’s so compelling that you have to

Mail on Sunday

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

Observer

A brilliantly uncomfortable read about the art of forgetfulness

Emma Hagestadt, Independent

Brilliant... You won't put this book down until its emotional end

Siraj Patel, Daily Express

a mesmerizing, unsettling novel

New York Times