- Social conditions, Fiction, Women in Great Britain, Great Britain Social conditions 20th century Fiction
Presented as the journal of a real-life woman who was born in 1901 and died in 1995, this is a fictional account of a young woman, Millie, who starts her diary at the age of 13, on the eve of the Great War.
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Grave, contemplative, earnest and character-led.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Margaret Forster
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 407
- Publisher
- Vintage, Chatto & Windus
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780099449287
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English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and critic, best known for a 1965 novel, Georgy Girl, made into a successful film of the same name
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