Upon her return to England, Anna ends up living with a woman named Molly, who is also a single mother. Anna also becomes active in working for the British Communist Party. The novel draws on her own experiences and ends up selling very well, giving Anna enough money to live off of. In 1951, Anna publishes a novel called Frontiers of War, which is set in Africa. Anna and Max get divorced when Janet is still a baby, and Anna returns to London to live as a single mother and work as a writer. As the war is ending, Max and Anna decide to have a child together they get married in 1945, and their daughter, Janet, is born in 1946. Anna is involved in a romantic relationship with a man named Max Wulf but has ambivalent feelings for him throughout. During her time in Africa, she becomes involves in Leftist politics and builds a close-knit circle of friends who are also involved with the cause. It eventually features a section from a fifth notebook: the golden notebook.Īnna Freeman Wulf is an Englishwoman who moves to the African colony of Rhodesia in 1939, just as World War II is breaking out. The novel alternates between describing Anna's life experiences and revealing the content of the different notebooks. Anna writes in four notebooks: one black, one red, one yellow, and one blue. The Golden Notebook consists of alternating sections: there is a framing narrative called 'Free Women,' narrated in the third person and featuring a character named Anna Wulf.

Author of the golden notebook