Margaret Forster (born 1938) is a British author. She was born in Carlisle, England, and has worked as a novelist, biographer and freelance literary critic, contributing regularly to book programmes on television, to Radio 4 and various newpapers and magazines.
She was the author of many successful novels, including Lady's Maid, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Have the Men Had Enough? and The Memory Box, two memoirs, Hidden Lives and Precious Lives, and several acclaimed biographies, most recently Good Wives.
MargaretForster (born May 25, 1938) is a British author.
She was born in Carlisle, England, read history at Somerville College, Oxford, and has worked as a novelist, biographer and freelance literary critic, contributing regularly to book programmes on television, to BBC Radio 4 and various newspapers and magazines.
Forster is married to the writer Hunter Davies and her daughter Caitlin is also an accomplished novelist.
MargaretForster lives in London and the Lake District with her husband, the writer and broadcaster Hunter Davies.
Forster's non-judgemental narratives demonstrate a genuine empathy with the dilemmas faced by women and an understanding of the often unreasonable sense of duty imposed upon them, most painfully often by the women themselves.
MargaretForster succeeds in combining an unblinking analysis of emotion with a social historian's interest in the details of everyday life.
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