by Margaret Forster · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099449287
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«Diary of an Ordinary Woman» is the historical fiction novel by Margaret Forster, published by Vintage in paperback (416 pages, in English).
Millicent King is born in 1901 and starts a diary on the eve of the Great War, which she keeps for decades. Domestic life and financial struggles coexist with bohemian London, 1920s Rome, social work, and her role as an ambulance driver in the bombed London of the Second World War.
Work of fiction presented as an edited diary; some editions carry the subtitle 1914-1995. The novel was originally published in 2003, and this Vintage edition dates from 2004.
For readers of historical fiction and contemporary narrative, and for reading groups interested in the female experience of the twentieth century.
Margaret Forster was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and critic, best known for the 1965 novel Georgy Girl, made into a successful film of the same name, which inspired a hit song by The Seekers. Other successes were a 2003 novel, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, biographies of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and her memoirs Hidden Lives and Precious Lives.
