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Diary of an Ordinary Woman
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Margaret Forster presents the ‘edited’ diary of a woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentieth century. On the eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins to keep her journal and vividly records the dramas of everyday life in a family touched by war, tragedy, and money troubles. From bohemian London to Rome in the 1920s her story moves on to social work and the build-up to another war, in which she drives ambulances through the bombed streets of London. Here is twentieth-century woman in close-up coping with the tragedies and upheavals of women’s lives from WWI to Greenham Common and beyond. A triumph of resolution and evocation, this is a beautifully observed story of an ordinary woman’s life – a narrative where every word rings true.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.287 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 416 |
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| Year Published | 2004-3-4 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099449285 |
| 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. |
A highly enjoyable read: well-informed, gripping…an overview of the period seen from the underside |
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| Other text | Not only is the background of social and political change meticulously accurate…but there is everything one would expect from a well-kept diary. This is fiction: yet it is true |
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