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The Unknown Bridesmaid is a 2013 novel by English novelist Margaret Forster published by Chatto & Windus. Plot introduction. Julia is now a child psychologist specialising in young girls with behaviour issues. The story alternates between her present job and her childhood from when she was an eight-years old bridesmaid.
Feb 28, 2013 · Julia, the central character of The Unknown Bridesmaid is, indeed unknown: to her family, to us readers, and most of all, to herself. When we first meet her, Julia is invited to be a young bridesmaid at her beautiful cousin Iris’s wedding.
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Sep 2, 2014 · The Unknown Bridesmaid Kindle Edition. by Margaret Forster (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 3.6 778 ratings. See all formats and editions. A child psychologist struggles to come to grips with her own dark childhood memories, in this “mesmerizing, unsettling novel” (The New York Times).
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Sep 19, 2014 · As a girl, Julia lives alone with her mother, Lydia. When Julia is invited to be a bridesmaid at her cousin Iris’s wedding, the event touches off a lifetime of consequences.
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The power of the past, the directive hand of childhood: the themes of The Unknown Bridesmaid are familiar fictional territory. But Margaret Forster has a deft and idiosyncratic touch in this...
When Julia was eight, she was asked to be a bridesmaid at her beautiful cousin Iris’s wedding. Her mother saw this as a chore – expensive, inconvenient – but Julia was thrilled. When the time came, even the fact that her bridesmaid’s dress didn’t fit, and was plain cream rather than the pink she’d hoped for, couldn’t ruin the day.
In her sessions, Julia has a knack for determining which of her young patients are truly troubled, and which are simply at the mercy of the oppressive adults around them. When Julia was eight, she was asked to be a bridesmaid at her beautiful cousin Iris's wedding.
