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The memory box

Margaret Forster

1999276 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1999
first published
  • 1999Chatto & Windus · 276 pages · ENG
  • 1999Quality Paperbacks Direct · 276 pages · ENG
  • 1999Chatto & Windus · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9780701168933
  • 2000Penguin · 276 pages · ENGISBN 9780140284119

A dying woman leaves a sealed box for her baby daughter. Years later, as a young woman, the daughter Catherine finds the mysterious box, addressed to her, full of unexplained objects, and she starts to unpack the story of a woman whom she never knew but who has cast a shadow over her life.

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