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 and vividly records the dramas of everyday life in a family touched by war, tragedy, and money troubles.

A fictional diary of a woman living through the twentieth century - from the drama and upheaval of two World Wars to the political exploits on Greenham common. Reissue.