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24 ratings, 3.38 average rating, 6 reviews
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published
August 3rd 2000
by Penguin Books Ltd
binding
Paperback, 288 pages
isbn
0140284117
(isbn13: 9780140284119)
description
"Susannah was apparently perfect, as the dead so often become": Margaret Forster's The Memory Box opens with the challenge which ru...more
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Read in January, 2007
A 31 year old woman finds a box in her late farther's attic, left for her by her Mother who died when she was six months old. Inside the box are a series of seemingly meaningless objects, with no explanation note or message. The main character Catherine has never been curious about her birth-mother before, she had a wonderfully loving relationship with her step-mother, and it's only now after her step-mother, farther and grandmother are dead that she decides she wants to get to know the woman wh...more
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This is an interesting and unusual book about a womens search for the truth about her birth Mother who died when she a was a small child. The author does not stick to a normal plot or formula, and instead concentrates on a character driven novel of self discovery.
I wouldn't say it was a page turner, but I did want to finish it, as much to find out the truth about her long dead Mother as to see whether the lead character became I person I could like by the end of the book.
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I wouldn't say it was a page turner, but I did want to finish it, as much to find out the truth about her long dead Mother as to see whether the lead character became I person I could like by the end of the book.
It is not a...more
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Little bit slow but I still wanted to finish it. It's about a memory box (funny that!) that's been left by the woman's dead mother and how she finds it as an adult. She sets off to work out the meaning behind the articles in the box. Very introspective but quite interesting.
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This book looks really, and as you can see, i didn't choose it because of the frount cover! Its about a woman, whos dead mother has left her a book with lots of photo's, and she has to find out what it means...
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