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 From bohemian London to Rome in the 1920s her story moves on to social work and the build-up to another war, in which she drives ambulances through the bombed streets of London Here is twentieth-century woman in close-up, from WWI to Greenham Common and beyond