Rich Desserts And Captains Thin - Hardcover

Forster, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701163941 ISBN 13: 9780701163945

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 1997

Synopsis

This account of the rise and prosperity of the biscuit manufacturers, Carr's of Carlisle, reveals the hidden lives behind the history of the great 19th-century manufacturing middle-class.

About this title

About the Author:

Born in Carlisle, Margaret Forster was the author of many successful and acclaimed novels, including Have the Men Had Enough?, Lady's Maid, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Is There Anything You Want? , Keeping the World Away, Over and The Unknown Bridesmaid. She also wrote bestselling memoirs – Hidden Lives, Precious Lives and, most recently, My Life in Houses – and biographies. She was married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies and lived in London and the Lake District. She died in February 2016, just before her last novel, How to Measure a Cow, was published.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0701163941
• ISBN 13: 9780701163945
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304