This engrossing, beautifully crafted novel follows the fictional adventures, over one hundred years, of an early twentieth-century painting, and the women whose lives it touches. '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' "Independent On Sunday". Coincides with her new novel, "Over" (Chatto).

Born in Carlisle, Margaret Forster was 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? , Keeping the World Away, Over and The Unknown Bridesmaid. She also wrote bestselling memoirs - Hidden Lives, Precious Lives and, most recently, My Life in Houses - and biographies. She was married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies and lived in London and the Lake District. She died in February 2016, just before her last novel, How to Measure a Cow, was published.