The titular golden notebook is Anna’s attempt to bring the other four together into one cohesive whole.Įxcerpts from the notebooks are interspersed with segments called Free Women, which relate the lives of Anna, her friend Molly, their families, and relationship partners. The yellow notebook is an attempt to write a second novel based on a failed relationship. The red notebook recounts her membership in the Communist Party, and her growing disillusion with it.
The black notebook documents her time in Southern Rhodesia before and during WWII, which inspired her successful first novel. Published in 1962, this book is a character study of Anna Wulf, a divorced writer with a young daughter living in London in the 1950s.
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