Margaret Forster presents the 'edited' diary of a woman born in 1901 whose life spans the twentieth century On the eve of the Great War Millicent King begins to keep her journal & vividly records the dramas of everyday life in a family touched by war tragedy & money troubles From bohemian London to Rome in the 1920s her story moves on to social work & the build-up to another war in which she drives ambulances through the bombed streets of London Here is twentieth-century woman in close-up coping with the tragedies & upheavals of women's lives from WWI to Greenham Common & beyond A triumph of resolution & evocation this is a beautifully observed story of an ordinary woman's life
- a narrative where every word rings true