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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

ISBN
  
0-7011-7412-9

Publisher
  
Chatto & Windus

OCLC
  
51914252


Publication date
  
6 March 2003

Pages
  
420 pp

Originally published
  
6 March 2003

Genre
  
Country
  
United Kingdom

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Margaret Forster books
  
Have the Men Had Enough?, Is there anything you want?, The Unknown Bridesmaid, My Life in Houses, Keeping the World Away

Diary of an Ordinary Woman is a novel by Margaret Forster, framed as an "edited" diary of a fictional woman who lives through most of the major events of the 20th century, covering the years 1914 to 1995. So realistic that many readers believed it to be an authentic diary, it is one of Forster's best-known novels.

Martin Chilton, writing in The Daily Telegraph, describes it as an "intermittent record of a quiet life dominated by the fact, the threat and the fear of war" and considers its main theme to be the cost of war.

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.

References

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