Margaret Reynolds

The Bright Field

  • The Bright Field

  • How to find an outlet for a love that demands expression? Single, in her mid-forties and having experienced a sudden early menopause, the realisation comes to Peggy quietly, and clearly; she decides to adopt a child. But the preparation is arduous and the scrutiny is intense. There are questions about past lives, about her own childhood, heritage, capabilities, expectations and identity.

    This is a book about what makes a mother, and a home; how the legacies of childhood may impact on the experience of parenting; and how the pervasive nature of childhood trauma might be faced by a mother’s determination to love.

RELEASED 25/02/2021

Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson
  • Jonathan Noakes
  • Margaret Reynolds
Martin Amis
Martin Amis
  • Jonathan Noakes
  • Margaret Reynolds
Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Faulks
  • Jonathan Noakes
  • Margaret Reynolds
Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan
  • Jonathan Noakes
  • Margaret Reynolds
Susan Hill
Susan Hill
  • Jonathan Noakes
  • Margaret Reynolds
Orlando
Orlando
Virginia Woolf
Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch
  • Jonathan Noakes
  • Margaret Reynolds
A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt
  • Jonathan Noakes
  • Margaret Reynolds
Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle
  • Jonathan Noakes
  • Margaret Reynolds
John Fowles
John Fowles
  • Jonathan Noakes
  • Margaret Reynolds
American Fiction
American Fiction
  • Jonathan Noakes
  • Margaret Reynolds
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
Margaret Reynolds (and others)
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie
  • Jonathan Noakes
  • Margaret Reynolds
Louis de Bernières
Louis de Bernières
  • Jonathan Noakes
  • Margaret Reynolds
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
  • Jonathan Noakes
  • Margaret Reynolds
The Sappho Companion
The Sappho Companion
Margaret Reynolds

Vintage Living Texts

14 Books

Margaret Reynolds is a writer, academic, critic and broadcaster: her previous books include The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories, The Sappho Companion and Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology and a series of study guides on contemporary writers, Vintage Living Texts.

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