Precious Lives

A follow-up to Margaret Forster's Hidden Lives (a family memoir of three generations of women), this account takes up the story of her gritty northern father. S... » 

A follow-up to Margaret Forster's Hidden Lives (a family memoir of three generations of women), this account takes up the story of her gritty northern father. She looks back at his life and character, evoking incidents from her Cumbrian childhood, his working life and his stubborn old age. «