Diary of an Ordinary Woman (Forster) - Book Reviews

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A highly enjoyable read: well-informed, gripping...an overview of the period seen from the underside
Sunday Telegraph

Not only is the background of social and political change meticulously accurate...but there is everything one would expect from a well-kept diary. This is fiction: yet it is true
Guardian

A beautifully crafted novel about the cost of war... Forster is as distinguished a biographer and memoir - writer as she is a novelist. She is an old hand at making a story out of the fragments of a life
Daily Telegraph

We believe in Millicent whole-heartedly and come to love her - she has a heroism that George Eliot would recognise. It may be fiction, but it's also - convincingly, tragically and often exhilaratingly - real life
Independent on Sunday

A richly textured, skilfully structured and highly enjoyable novel by an experienced writer at the peak of her powers
Times Literary Supplement