DIARY OF AN ORDINARY SCHOOLGIRL - Margaret Forster
December 7th 1954
Much colder day & very frosty & foggy at first. Bitterly cold going down on a bike. Joan Scott got to know that she has got an interview tomorrow at [Cambridge deleted] Oxford!! She’s on top of the world (it gives me a thrill just to write the name – Cambridge!) But poor old Mary hasn’t heard anything – I think shes wizard. Tried out for readings for the nativity play. Had amusing dinnertime with my table UIVs. Look forward to Tuesday.
In 1954 in Carlisle lived an ordinary 15-year-old schoolgirl called Margaret. She would go on to become an acclaimed writer, the author of novels Georgy Girl and Diary of an Ordinary Woman as well as biographies and memoirs. But this is her diary from that year; her life. Hers might be a lost world, but her daily observations bring it back in vivid, irresistible detail.
Published today by Chatto and Windus, the book includes photographs as well as facimile pages from Margaret’s original diary. The book was designed, inside and out, by Anna Green.
