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Here is twentieth-century woman in close-up, coping with the tragedies and upheavals of women''s lives from the First World War to Greenham Common and beyond.

This is the edited' diary of an individual woman, born in 1901, and a story of the twentieth century. On the eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins keeping her journal, vividly recording the drama of everyday life. From bohemian London to Rome in the 1920s, through social work and the build-up to another war, in which she drives ambulances through the bombed streets of London, this is a story both fictional and true. Full of the texture of life, beautifully observed and evocative, it tells the story of an ordinary woman's life against the huge canvas of the last century.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition.

Diary of an Ordinary Woman

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      Publisher: Random House
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/3/2024
      ISBN13: 9781784879846, 978-1784879846
      ISBN10: 1784879843
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Here is twentieth-century woman in close-up, coping with the tragedies and upheavals of women''s lives from the First World War to Greenham Common and beyond.

      This is the edited' diary of an individual woman, born in 1901, and a story of the twentieth century. On the eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins keeping her journal, vividly recording the drama of everyday life. From bohemian London to Rome in the 1920s, through social work and the build-up to another war, in which she drives ambulances through the bombed streets of London, this is a story both fictional and true. Full of the texture of life, beautifully observed and evocative, it tells the story of an ordinary woman's life against the huge canvas of the last century.

      WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

      This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition.

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