基本介紹
- 中文名稱：Diary of an Ordinary Woman
- 裝幀：Paperback
- 定價：107.00元
- 作者：Margaret Forster
- 出版社：VINTAGE
- 出版日期：2004-03-04
- ISBN：9780099449287
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'Margaret Forster's books hold you in their grip and linger in the mind'
—Mary Wesley, Daily Express
'A highly enjoyable read: well-informed, gripping… an overview of the period seen from the underside'
—Sunday 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 new work by Margaret Forster always gives me a tingle of anticipation… I rushed through this novel and enjoyed it enormously… what she experienced in her very "ordinariness" was shared by thousands of real women of her generation'
—Val Hennessey, Daily Mail
'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
'A richly textured, skilfully structured and highly enjoyable novel by an experienced writer at the peak of her powers'
—Times Literary Supplement
"This is a remarkable novel. Forster evokes a woman and a century with faultless clarity. She also makes us question how we know the past, each other and ourselves."
— Good Book Guide
作者簡介
Margaret Forster was born in Carlisle in 1938 and educated at the Carlisle and County High School for Girls. From here she won an open scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford where she was awarded an honours degree in History. After her exams she married the writer Hunter Davies, whom she met and fell in love with at the age of 17. She became a schoolteacher in Islington, North London (between 1961-63) briefly before embarking on a writing career. She first achieved fame in 1965 with her second book, Georgy Girl which was made into a film.
Since 1963, Margaret Forster has worked as a novelist, biographer and freelance literary critic, contributing regularly to book programmes on television, to radio 4 and various newspapers and magazines. She was a member of the BBC Advisory Committee on the Social Effects of Television from 1975-77 and of the Arts Council Literary Panel from 1978-81, as well as the chief non-fiction reviewer for the London Evening Standard from 1977-80.
She is the author of the bestselling memoirs, Hidden Lives (a memoir of her own family) and Precious Lives. Her acclaimed biographies include the biography of Daphne du Maurier, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Amongst Margaret Forster's many successful novels are Lady's Maid, Private Papers and The Memory Box.
She now lives with her husband, Hunter Davies and their three children, Caitlin, Jake and Flora. They live half the year in North London and half the year at their cottage in the Lake District.
