Keeping the World Away











- Published: 1 May 2007
- ISBN: 9780099496861
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 352
- RRP: $29.99
Few authors share Margaret Forster's extraordinary ability to transform the ordinary day-to-day activities of unremarkable people into compelling fiction
Daily Mail
A fine novel... an inspired reflection on the redemptive potential of art
Mail on Sunday
The characters are fully developed and differentiated...there is harrowing emotional insight; it also contains elements of real comedy
Matthew Dennison, The Times
Her historical skills are, as always, matched by her marvellous empathy... A finely crafted novel
Sunday Times
Forster's style is easy and unpretentious. In a brief paragraph she can create a character we care about, a story we long to see resolved
Sue Gaisford, Independent on Sunday
A skilful, apparently simple tale is unostentatiously styled to disguise its artificiality and this writer's artful adaption, but not contradiction, of historical facts
Jessica Man, Sunday Telegraph