Margaret Forster presents the "edited" diary of a woman born in 1901, who died in 1995. From the age of thirteen, on the eve of the Great War. Millicent King keeps a journal and vividly records the dramas of everyday life in an ordinary family touched by war and tragedy. Her struggles through the upheavals of a woman's life in the twentieth century, from bohemian London to Rome in the Twenties, and from two world was to Greenham Common and beyond, is a triumph of survival. In this brilliantly conceived journal, an "ordinary" woman lives through extraordinary times in an extraordinary century.
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The breadth of change in the lives of women in the twentieth century and in the opportunities available to them is vast. What more vivid method for exploring those changes could there be than a "diary" spanning the long life of a middle-class woman who lived between 1901 and the end of the century? Narrator Susan Jameson brings out the moods and emotions of Millicent as she tells the story of local and international events that affect her. Interspersed are summaries of events during periods when little of note occurs. Jameson narrates these as asides to listeners, as if sparing us tedious or repetitive entries while focusing on passages of more interest. J.E.M. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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Margaret Forster is no ordinary woman,
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This is a novel written in the form of an edited diary. It is a convincing, beautifully written account of the life of an ordinary Englishwoman from 1914 until 1995. You gradually build up a picture of Millicent's life in the diary which Forster writes with great clarity. It covers all majors events from the Great War onwards and it is a triumphant depiction of an independent 20th century woman, warts and all. I started this after reading Margaret Forster's biography of her grandmother and mother and I am full of admiration for her clear uncluttered style of writing and intend to read all the rest of her books now.
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I enjoyed this book quite a lot, however I was irritated when I discovered that it was a novel and not a real story. I admit that it clearly states "novel" on the front cover, albeit in very small print. I think it would have been just as interesing if it had been published without the deception.
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