Isa & May - Softcover

Forster, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0753187019 ISBN 13: 9780753187012

Publisher: Isis Large Print, 2011

Synopsis

The curiously named Isamay is trying to write a coherent thesis about grandmothers in history – from Sarah Bernhardt and George San to the matriarchal Queen Victoria – while constantly ambushed by the secrets of her own family. An only child, she is named after her grandmothers, Isa and May, who have formed and influenced her in very different ways. Jealous of each other, they both want to be first in their granddaughter's affections. Isa has an edge, in that young Isamay looks like her. But from May, Isamay inherits her stubborn determination. Now Isamay, almost 30, begins to want a child of her own, but her live-in lover, Ian (always mysterious about his own family history) is sure that he does not want children. And Isamay soon has her heart set on the idea.

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About the Author

Born in Carlisle, MARGARET FORSTER is 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? and most recently Over, as well as bestselling memoirs (Hidden Lives and Precious Lives) and biographies.

From the Hardcover edition.

Review

"A compelling story, sometimes funny, sometimes painfully sad... All family life is here, messy, insistent and, as the author convincingly shows, as essential as breathing."
--Sunday Times

"Margaret Forster has always had the enviable gift of making her characters spring to life, and both Isa and May do just that."
--Allan Massie, Scotsman

"A sensitive and intelligent novel with passages of beautifully modulated pathos, while being in part, hugely funny."
--The Times
From the Hardcover edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Isis Large Print
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0753187019
• ISBN 13: 9780753187012
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408