The Will of Magda Townsend

by Margaret Culkin Banning

Still vibrantly alive at eighty, a successful novelist relives her past as she makes her will. Magda Townsend has known triumph and tragedy - a disastrous first marriage to a dashing, ineffectual young man, the joys of motherhood, the shock of bereavement, and a late marriage to a man she truly loved. Here is the compelling portrait of a woman brave enough to affirm her life in all its vicissitudes, one whose final bequest is surely her greatest gift of all.

Genres: Fiction

318 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1974

Reviews

[Suzanne Mundy · Rating 3 out of 5]

The bittersweet story of a novelist preparing her will. The book gave the reader an insight into a life well lived. If only everyone could be as content as Magda Townsend. I suspect this to be an autobiographical account.

[Craig Schlossin · Rating 3 out of 5]

She lived and thrived and died with nothing interesting in between.

[Diane Wachter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Margaret Culkin Banning, A Cass Canfield Book, RDC-M, #3, 1974, 7/89. fiction, okay.