Diary of an Ordinary Woman by Margaret Forster - ISBN: 9780099449287
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An ordinary woman’s diary reveals an extraordinary twentieth-century life.

Diary of an Ordinary Woman

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    416 pages

  • Release Date

    3 May 2004

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Summary

‘I rushed through this novel and enjoyed it enormously - what she experienced in her very “ordinariness” was shared by thousands of real women of her generation’ Val Hennessey, Daily Mail

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 …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099449287
ISBN-10:0099449285
Author:Margaret Forster
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:3 May 2004
Weight:287g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 25mm
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Critics Review

’ I rushed through this novel and enjoyed it enormously-what she experienced in her very ‘ ordinariness’ was shared by thousands of real women of her generation’ Val Hennessey, Daily Mail

About The Author

Margaret Forster

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.

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