Diary of an Ordinary Woman Book

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 a social worker and the build-up to another war in which she drives ambulances through the bombed streets of London. Here is 20th-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.

On the eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins to keep her journal and records the dramas of everyday life in a family touched by war, tragedy, and money troubles. This title presents the 'edited' diary of this woman, born in 1901, whose life spa