Book description
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.
Born in Carlisle, Margaret Forster is 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?
and most recently
Over
, as well as bestselling memoirs (
Hidden Lives
and
Precious Lives
) and biographies. She is married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies
and lives in London and the Lake District.
