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' I rushed through this novel and enjoyed it enormously-what she experienced in her very ' ordinariness' was shared by thousands of real women of her generation' Val Hennessey, Daily Mail
Literary Review. March 2003
'Diary of an Ordinary Woman is certainly more gripping and more immediate than many novels..Forster has pulled off an imaginative feat.'
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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A clever book I read in one sitting. What makes the diary of an "Ordinary" woman so compulsive? The diarist, Millicent King, is an engaging character with a surprisingly modern mindset who sometimes makes what must have been considered racy life choices - she is a woman well ahead of her time.
No passive product of a Victorian upbringing - she is an intelligent, fiesty and determindly independent person and following her life gives us an intriging insight into how her generation coped with the awful tragedy of two world wars. Although I was often moved to tears, her diary entries are also highly amusing - Millicent often being as opinionated and judgemental as a spoiled child.
The other characters are just as strong and interesting and you long to know more of them. Can't say more than this without giving plot details away.
Like other reviewers, I ignored the words "A Novel" on the front cover - you can't and don't want to believe this is fiction.
No passive product of a Victorian upbringing - she is an intelligent, fiesty and determindly independent person and following her life gives us an intriging insight into how her generation coped with the awful tragedy of two world wars. Although I was often moved to tears, her diary entries are also highly amusing - Millicent often being as opinionated and judgemental as a spoiled child.
The other characters are just as strong and interesting and you long to know more of them. Can't say more than this without giving plot details away.
Like other reviewers, I ignored the words "A Novel" on the front cover - you can't and don't want to believe this is fiction.
31 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I can never resist reading any book by Margaret Forster. I loved this book about the fictional character Millicent King. I couldn't put it down! It was so real it has been hard to accept that it is in fact a novel. But of course the story is that of a thousand women who lived through two world wars and whose lives have spanned the century.
Millicent King's life related to that of my mother and grandmothers, to my aunts and uncles and cousins - to all who lived through war and suffered the consequences.
I think that Margaret Forster is a brilliant author and may she continue to write on and on ....
31 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
What a rollercoaster of a day! I finished this book this morning and spent the next few hours grieving - both for the death of this remarkable woman and for the book/diary ending. I had so enjoyed 'knowing' Millicent and felt quite cut adrift to have 'lost' her. I admit it - I had NO idea that the diaries weren't real! I searched the internet to find out more about this amazing woman and her family, only to find that she is a fictional character! Of course seems obvious now - I just hadn't noticed the references to fiction on the book cover. This is a great book - the emotional ambiguities and twists & turns of Millicent's life were, for me, devastatingly real, making this an intense and powerfully engaging reading experience. Inspires reflection on past and present connections with my own mother, my grandmothers, great aunts etc, and a sharp (and uncomfortable) awareness of the ease with which we can, in our relative youth, disregard/dismiss their knowledge, perspective, experience and insight (as did the twins - Connie and Toby - to Millicent).
The rest of my day will be spent adjusting to the fact that there is no Millicent King!!
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Faction or fiction?
By the time I got about half way through this I started to suspect that Forster might be about to do a Memoirs of a Geisha and I was spot on. Read more
Published 3 months ago by A. Sneade
Who is ordinary?
By placing Millicent King in the middle of events during the turbulent twentieth century, Margaret Foster is able to present her with many of the dilemmas which have faced women... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Clive A. H. Still
An Ordinary Woman
I have just finished reading this wonderful book and like most everyone else I thought it was based on a real person. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Delores
Top Marks for Ordinary Woman's Diary
Forster's research has paid off. It makes this novel feel alive. References, such as, to Mrs. Dalloway being a new book make the diary entries feel topical. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Bookaholic babe
An unusal and engaging way to tell a story
The best thing about this book is the premise and the way Foster has found a new and unsual way to tell a wartime story. Read more
Published on 8 April 2010 by Hayles
Excellent
I received this book from the seller in very quick time and the book was in excellent condition, as well as an excellent read!
Published on 29 Mar 2010 by Book Worm
A book tells a real life
I've got it from last x'mas as a present,the part of her daiary when she was a little girl doesn't attract me that much, but by the time move into her adult period and onwards just... Read more
Published on 28 Nov 2009 by FM
Diary of an ordinary woman
Millicent was no ordinary woman, quite the opposite in fact. She was intelligent, modern and forward thinking. Read more
Published on 28 Aug 2009 by Ms. S. E. Isle
diary of an ordinary woman
An excellent read. It was one of those books you don,t want to end. Fascinating insight into living through some of the major historical events in Britain through the 20th century... Read more
Published on 3 Jun 2009 by linzim
misleading and poor
Having read this particular edition of the book, I did not have the final acknowledgement about it being a complete work of fiction. Read more
Published on 30 Mar 2009 by Joanne E. Matheson
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