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| Margaret Forster |
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Mothers' boys Walking home late one night, fifteen-year-old Joe Kennedy is viciously attacked. Sheila Armstrong's grandson Leo, usually so quite and well-behaved is found holding a knife. Joe's mother Harriet cannot cope with her son's continuing pain; Sheila cannot escape the feeling that she is, somehow, to blame for Leo's actions. As the two women are bound unwittingly together by their sense of guilt, they confront the complex emotions that motherhood entails, in a moving tale of love and forgiveness. 'A sensitive and gripping novel...The Story unfolds with striking authenticity and perception. The characterisation and dialogue are so exact that one knows these people' Moira Shearer, Daily Telegraph 'This is Forster writing at her very best' Daily Mail 'Margaret Forster has the gift of making you care deeply about what happens to her characters...she is as good as any novelist writing in the English language today' Allan Massie, Scotsman 'The story unfolds through the eyes of two emotionally devastated women...It is the pain of such mothers that Margaret Forster explores most brilliantly' Val Hennessy, Daily Mail 'The story grips and the heart bleeds for these mothers who are, like all mothers, never good enough' Polly Toynbee, Sunday Express 'A superb storyteller. She doesn't set out to give us the answers, but to remind us, overwhelmingly, of the questions' Penelope Fitzgerald, Evening Standard
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