Searching for a book from the 70s

Could it be The Diary by Paul Jennings?

Unfortunately it is not The Diary by Paul Jennings, but thank you for trying to help.

I put this information into google and AI came up with the following;

"The Diary of a Dead Man and a Dead Woman" (also known as "The Diary") by the prolific author A. M. Burrage.

The narrative follows a solicitor (lawyer) who is handling an estate for a recently deceased young couple. The terrifying twist is that in the husband's reality, his wife died in a car crash, while in the wife's reality, her husband was the one killed.Through the solicitor's investigation, the sequence of events unfolds:Alternating Realities: The husband writes an entry in his diary, and the following day an entry from his wife appears right below it, creating an alternating pattern of life and death.The Solicitor: Eventually, the solicitor is drawn into the mystery and begins adding his own notes to the diary.The Climax: The solicitor visits the house only to find it shuttered and empty. When he inspects the last pages of the diary, he finds the diary entries made by the husband and the wife on the same line, intersecting both of their realities at the moment of their tragic deaths.

No idea sorry

Sounds like the kind of book I would like to read but I think the plot has kind of been given away 🤣
Sounds like a weird book for a headmistress to read to the pupils. Pretty cool. Our head would have probably plumped for Dickens.

Fallingstar

Sounds like the kind of book I would like to read but I think the plot has kind of been given away 🤣
Sounds like a weird book for a headmistress to read to the pupils. Pretty cool. Our head would have probably plumped for Dickens.

Haha mine too.
I must see if this book still exists, sounds good.

Yes, what a headmistress indeed. Inspirational. The sort of teacher who opens up children's minds to the joys of literature.
I had a teacher like this too, and I can honestly say that he was the best teacher I ever had for that very reason.
I still think often of him and my appreciation of him only grows with passing time.
Well done Retired 65.

Sounds an interesting one.

Looks like a 'niche' subject matter, not something we'd be likely to watch/read. Maybe the OP would like 'Ghosts' (former - alleged - sitcom), or the 'Ghost Hunter', where several hosts, often lit in a spooky green light (?), discuss if something has just tripped their 'Spirit-ometer'?

Laurie,

You were asking on Facebook a year ago for the title of this book.
Sorry to see you've not had any luck as yet.

The niche is science fiction. Great head mistress.
Wish I'd written it!

I can't follow mixed up dialogue and too many characters as it does my mind in !

Just a few suggestions

Try putting the outline of plot into Google or other search engines.
Try your local library. My friendly library would probably jump at the challenge to help you.
Good luck.

Depending on how old her listeners were, I would say any headmistress who read a book of that kind to her pupils was running a serious risk of getting a lot of complaints from parents, both when we were school-girls and now.

I would have been revolted and scared silly be such a book, my mother would have dismissed it as silly nonsense, and my grandparents would have called it blasphemous.

It takes all kinds to make a world, doesn't it?

Try Fantasy-Faction - Fantasy and Science Fiction Book Discussion on Facebook, they are amazing at finding any book.

Sounds like my kind of book.
Teacher never read anything like that to us kids.

DrWatson

Looks like a 'niche' subject matter, not something we'd be likely to watch/read. Maybe the OP would like 'Ghosts' (former - alleged - sitcom), or the 'Ghost Hunter', where several hosts, often lit in a spooky green light (?), discuss if something has just tripped their 'Spirit-ometer'?

Much as I enjoy your comments usually, I take you to task on Ghosts😁 it’s a gentle amusing watch, the British version anyway.

Whoa! AuntieE 😲 bit extreme there.

Title of book has been found!

And it is........ ?

Retired65

I put this information into google and AI came up with the following;

"The Diary of a Dead Man and a Dead Woman" (also known as "The Diary") by the prolific author A. M. Burrage.

If you look up thread this appears to be the book in question.