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Over (Paperback)

by Margaret Forster (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage (2 Aug 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099507668
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099507666
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 167,675 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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`Forster's prose rings true...'


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`Written with her customary spareness and restraint.'
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45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, heartbreaking novel, 5 Nov 2007
Over is yet another novel from Margaret Forster that touches a raw, sore nerve. Over is about grief and death. Yet this "misery novel" is never mawkish or grim. When tragedy strikes, an erstwhile happy family tries to deal with the loss. Everyone copes with the death of their eighteen-year-old sister/daughter in a sailing accident differently and causes unintentional further pain to other members of the family as they do so. The book is not so much about the shock of the tragedy itself as what happens next - when it is over. The mother, a kindly school teacher, records the chain of events that leads to the family being torn apart and gradually find ways to pull together. It is crafted beautifully from the first sentence to the last. Don't be put off by the bleak subject matter. The book is about ordinary people filled with hope and love trying to understand each other and what has happened to them.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Lacking that special something, 19 Dec 2007
By Suzie (Scotland, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a brilliant depiction of a family disintegrating following the death of a daughter, sadly a situation so often encountered in real life. The characters are well-drawn and convincing and the writing clear and concise. So why was I not compelled to keep reading, anxious to return to the book whenever I had put it down?

It's a difficult question to answer, but I somehow had to force myself to read to the end. Maybe because it was so obvious what was going to happen the story lost that sense of anticipation, of wondering how the author would resolve the conflicts she had presented so fluently. I have only read one other novel by Margaret Forster and again I remember that feeling of something lacking, some intangible quality that would lift the story out of the mundane. It was well-written, true to life, and dealt with a heart-rending topic, but, as with 'Over', I felt I could 'take it or leave it'. And yet I love novels without a fast-moving plot that chart feelings and how people deal with them - 'The Other Side of You' by Salley Vickers, for instance.

I know Margaret Forster's fans rate her highly, so I shall not give up on her yet and am about to start 'Keeping the World Away'. Meanwhile, I imagine her fans will not want to miss 'Over'. For me, though, it didn't quite make it.
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74 of 84 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I Don't Know How She Does It!, 15 April 2007
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Ask what 'happens' in this novel and you have to say 'Not much', in terms of a runaway plot, that is. But Forster's gift is to write about 'ordinary' people and events so that the reader keeps reading avidly. Her theme is the coping with loss, and the effects on others of the strategies we employ to do this. I have enjoyed all her work, and am a fan, so perhaps this is biased, but I rate it the best book I've read in many months
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5.0 out of 5 stars Short but painfully sweet.
It would be easy to be put off by the depressing synposis, but it's a tribute to Margaret Forster's writing that I never felt I was intruding on this family's grief. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Denise4891

3.0 out of 5 stars Over - yes by page thirty
Margaret Forster is a near neighbour of mine so you'd expect me to say how good "Over" is. Well I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I found this novel turgid in the extreme. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Martin A. Chambers

4.0 out of 5 stars a vivid but subtle story of a grieving family
the way in which Margaret Forster tackles the effect on a family of the death of a daughter was hauntingly real. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Muppet

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