Keeping the World Away

Margaret Forster
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A classic Margaret Forster novel with the same satisfying appeal as her bestselling Diary of an Ordinary Woman — the story of an actual early 20th century painting and its fictional adventures through the century and of the women whose lives it touches. From the Hardcover edition.
Genres: FictionHistorical FictionArtBook ClubLiterary FictionContemporaryFranceNovelsBritish LiteratureHistorical
338 Pages

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