August 21, 2024

Letters to Margaret – Out Now

The Story of a Life and a Hearing Journey.

“At the end of almost every day of their fifty-five years of married life, author Margaret Forster would ask her naturally gregarious and outgoing husband Hunter Davies to describe to her the highlights of his working day spent in the worlds of journalism and publishing. In the six years that have elapsed since Margaret’s death, Hunter has continued these conversations with his wife, regaling her with accounts of the events and developments in his life – domestic, social, romantic, book-related, health-related and others – through a sequence of ‘Letters to Margaret’, now published by Bloomsbury.

Whether recounting adventures in online dating, the pleasures and pitfalls of buying a new house by the seaside, the trauma of major operations on his heart and gall bladder, a chance encounter at a book-signing session that led to a new romantic attachment, or a visit to A&E when he was supposed to be watching the World Cup final, these twenty-three letters weave together strands of confession, self-mockery, anecdote and touching remembrance of married happiness with Margaret.

Letters to Margaret reveals Hunter Davies raging happily against the dying of the light in his late eighties, and seeking consolation for life’s frustrations and disappointments through a sustained conversation with the woman he shared his life with for more than half a century.”

So reads the publicity information for Hunter Davies’ latest book. But what makes this wonderful, heartfelt publication particularly special to us is that in it he mentions meeting our founder, Robert and his wife, Ali, and how this led him to the doors of Hearing Healthcare Practice and a bright new chapter in his hearing journey.

We’d thoroughly recommend ‘Letters to Margaret’ by our good friend, Hunter Davies, and you can order your copy HERE.