by Margaret Forster · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140043648
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«Georgy Girl» is the novel by Margaret Forster, published by Penguin in paperback (176 pages, in English).
Georgy is a cheerful young woman self-conscious about her looks, who shares a flat with her attractive and selfish roommate Meredith. When Meredith announces she is pregnant, Jos, the father, falls in love with Georgy; additionally, an older man proposes she become his mistress. A romantic tangle narrated with irony and affection.
1978 edition of the novel originally published in 1965, adapted into a film in the sixties.
For readers of British fiction seeking a bittersweet comedy about love and self-esteem.
Margaret Forster was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and critic, best known for the 1965 novel Georgy Girl, made into a successful film of the same name, which inspired a hit song by The Seekers. Other successes were a 2003 novel, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, biographies of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and her memoirs Hidden Lives and Precious Lives.
