Diary of an Ordinary Woman - Margaret Forster

In her introduction to Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Margaret Forster explains how she came to edit the diaries of Millicent King which Millicent had kept from 1914 to 1995. She was approached, she tells us, by Joanna, the wife of Millicent’s nephew. Joanna had read some of Forster’s other books, notably Hidden Lives a moving testimony to the (often difficult) lives of Forster’s own mother and grandmother and feels that the author would be able to ...
...creation and the book - Diary of an Ordinary Woman - is a work of fiction. Forster hasn’t “edited” the book; she has written it - right down to the last diary entry and editor’s comment. Like the fictional Joanna I have read “Hidden Lives” Forster’s book about her mother and grandmother and also “Precious Lives” a very moving account of the deaths of her father and her sister-in-law. I know for a fact that if I was ever looking for anyone to edit ...

weenawoo 18.03.2004 · Read full review
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