Keeping the World Away, Paperback/Margaret Forster

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).