My first novel, Dame's Delight, was published in 1964, followed a year later by Georgy Girl. It was so easy to get published in the Sixties. Publishers won't take risks on first novelists now, but then they expected to lose money on your first two or three books. Margaret Drabble and Sheila MacLeod were my exact contemporaries.


The Independent (16 March 1993)

Margaret Forster Quotes

My first novel, Dame's Delight, was published in 1964, followed a year later by Georgy Girl. It was so easy to get published in the Sixties....

My first novel, Dame's Delight, was published in 1964, followed a year later by Georgy Girl. It was so easy to get published in the Sixties....

My first novel, Dame's Delight, was published in 1964, followed a year later by Georgy Girl. It was so easy to get published in the Sixties....

My first novel, Dame's Delight, was published in 1964, followed a year later by Georgy Girl. It was so easy to get published in the Sixties....