The Unknown Bridesmaid
A Psychology, British Literature, Contemporary book. I'm a big fan of Margaret Forster; she manages to write eloquently on a number of...
When Julia was eight, she was asked to be a bridesmaid at her beautiful cousin Iris’s wedding. Her mother saw this as a chore – expensive, inconvenient – but Julia was thrilled. When the time came, even the fact that her bridesmaid’s dress didn’t fit, and was plain cream rather than the pink she’d hoped for, couldn’t ruin the day. But after this, things began to go wrong for Julia, starting with an episode involving her cousin’s baby, a pram and a secret trip round the block. A lifetime later, Julia is a child psychologist who every day deals with young girls said to be behaving badly. Some are stealing, some are running away from home, some are terribly untidy, some won’t eat or get out of bed. Julia has a special knack with these girls. She understands which really are troubled, and which are at the mercy of the way they are seen by the adults around them. But one day, Julia’s own troubled past starts to creep into her present. And as she struggles to understand her childhood self, she must confront the possibility that the truth may...
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- Pages: 240 pages
- ISBN: 9780701188054 / 701188057
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I loved this book so much, as I do all Margaret Forster novels. She has a precise way of eking out an ordinary person's run-of-the-mill existence and turning it completely on its head. In this case, The Unknown Bridesmaid's main protagonist, Julia's life is one psychological amalagmation of childhood secrets, gut-wrenching guilt and... I'm a big fan of Margaret Forster; she manages to write eloquently on a number of different subjects, this means that some topics will be more of interest than others. In The Unknown Bridesmaid the story revolves around a child psychologist, Julia which I found immensely readable.The story is written from Julia's perspective both in... There had always been in her this meanness which every now and again got out of control.Ignore the sweet-looking hints of the cover. The Unknown Bridesmaid by Margaret Forster is the story of Julia, a strangely disaffected child who becomes a successful child psychologist. Its Julias job to explore the hidden corners of culpability...
