The Memory Box

By Margaret Forster

Book Overview

Catherine's mother died when Catherine was just a baby girl, leaving nothing but her perfect reputation to live up to. Or so she thought. But then Catherine finds a box addressed to her, filled with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0701168935
• ISBN13: 9780701168933
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.

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Margaret Forster takes us on a wonderful journey through Catherine's discovery of her dead mother. The 'memory box' her mother leaves her daughter as she dies, when the child is only six months old, reminds us of the importance of personal history and the sense that it gives us all of our grounding in life. The journey that Catherine undertakes leads her to question her own lifestyle and the relationships with her father, stepmother and Tony her boyfriend. To the very end she reconciles her feelings for the mother she tried to ignore and discovers unexpected truths about herself. The box for thirty years enclosed and contained within the attic of her family home, once opened like Pandoras Box, couldnt be closed again. An engaging story which will make you question your history.