Margaret Forster presents the edited diary of a woman born in 1901 whoselife spans the twentieth century. On the eve of the Great War Millicent Kingbegins to ke... » 

Margaret Forster presents the edited diary of a woman born in 1901 whoselife spans the twentieth century. On the eve of the Great War Millicent Kingbegins to keep her journal and vividly records the dramas of everyday life in afamily touched by war tragedy and money troubles. From bohemian London toRome in the 1920s her story moves on to a social worker and the buildup toanother war in which she drives ambulances through the bombed streets ofLondon. Here is 20thcentury woman in closeup coping with the tragedies andupheavals of womens lives from WWI to Greenham Common and beyond. A triumph ofresolution and evocation this is a beautifully observed story of an ordinarywomans life a narrative where every word rings true. «