Isa & May
By: Margaret Forster
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Isis large print
Publisher: Isis; Isis Large Print
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: [text (large print)] /
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780753187012; 9780753187005
Subjects: Family secrets; Fiction; Grandmothers; Grandparent and child; Large type books; Women authors; Family relationshipe
Other titles: Isa and May
Description: The curiously named Isamay is trying to write a coherent thesis about grandmothers in history - from Sarah Bernhardt and George San to the matriarchal Queen Victoria - while constantly ambushed by the secrets of her own family. An only child, she is named after her grandmothers, Isa and May, who have formed and influenced her in very different ways. Jealous of each other, they both want to be first in their granddaughter's affections. Isa has an edge, in that young Isamay looks like her. But from May, Isamay inherits her stubborn determination. Now Isamay, almost 30, begins to want a child of her own, but her live-in lover, Ian (always mysterious about his own family history) is sure that he does not want children. And Isamay soon has her heart set on the idea.
Notes: Adult.