Diary of an Ordinary Woman
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Diary of an Ordinary Woman is a novel framed as an 'edited' diary of fictional woman Millicent King (1901-1995), written by Margaret Forster.
Plot
From the age of thirteen, on the eve of the Great War, Millicent King keeps her journals in a series of exercise books. The diary records the dramas of everyday life in an ordinary English family touched by war, tragedy, and money troubles in the early decades of the century. She struggles to become a teacher, but wants more out of life. From bohemian literary London to Rome in the twenties, 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. She has proposals of marriage and secret lovers, ambition and optimism. but then her life is turned upside down once more by wartime deaths.
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- 2003 novels
- Novels by Margaret Forster
- 2000s novel stubs
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