Diary Of An Ordinary Woman

A highly enjoyable read: well-informed, gripping...an overview of the period seen from the underside

Sunday Telegraph

Not only is the background of social and political change meticulously accurate...but there is everything one would expect from a well-kept diary. This is fiction: yet it is true

Guardian

A beautifully crafted novel about the cost of war... Forster is as distinguished a biographer and memoir-writer as she is a novelist. She is an old hand at making a story out of the fragments of a life

Daily Telegraph

We believe in Millicent whole-heartedly and come to love her - she has a heroism that George Eliot would recognise. It may be fiction, but it's also - convincingly, tragically and often exhilaratingly - real life

Independent on Sunday

A richly textured, skilfully structured and highly enjoyable novel by an experienced writer at the peak of her powers

Times Literary Supplement

No woman could have been more liberated than Millicent King, whose story Margaret Forster tells in this excellent novel - less a novel than a chronicle of events experienced by a token ordinary woman, who is in fact not so much ordinary as iconic

Anita Brookner, Spectator

A new work by Margaret Forster always gives me a tingle of anticipation. Her books are consistently good reads, packed with originality and imagination

Val Hennessy, Daily Mail

Always convincing and utterly compulsive

Eve

This is a remarkable novel. Forster evokes a woman and a century with faultless clarity. She also makes us question how we know the past, each other and ourselves

Good Book Guide

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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