Diary Of An Ordinary Woman

Forster, Margaret

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Presented as the ‘edited’ journal of a real-life woman who was born in 1901 and died in 1995, this is a fiction where every word rings true. Millie starts her diary at the age of 13, on the eve of the Great War.

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Publish Date: 04/03/2004
ISBN: 9780099449287 Category: Tag:

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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.

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Weight 287 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 25 mm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

407

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

823.914 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K