Instead of a Letter
«Her first and still most perfect perfect book»
Carole Angier, Literary Review
Despite her family's ailing finances, Diana Athill's childhood - spent in a lovely house in Norfolk - was blissful. In 1932, she fell in love with Paul: an undergraduate who tutored her younger brother. Les mer
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Athill's debut is also her most personal: a dissection of personal tragedy and the struggle to rebuild her life amid severe disappointment and loneliness. Unfolding throughout the Second World War, Instead of a Letter is an inspiring story of love and loss, heartbreak and hope, and a testament to her strength of character - her vivacity, honesty and perspicacity.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Granta Books
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 240
- ISBN
- 9781783787432
- Utgivelsesår
- 2022
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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«Her first and still most perfect perfect book»
Carole Angier, Literary Review
«The reader sees the transformation of the battered soul into a buoyant woman, open-minded and open-hearted»
Hilary Mantel, Spectator
«This classic memoir ... well deserves another airing»
Daily Mail
«I first came across Diana Athill when I was 17. I picked up her memoir, Instead of a Letter, attracted to its title. I was driven on by avid inexperience, sure that I could find out from Athill what life itself was not yet ready to tell me about love, sex and - most impressively - heartbreak. I admired her elegant vigour and control of words in contrast to the freedom with which she wrote about herself. She became, in my reading life, a friend»
Kate Kellaway, Observer
«One certainly admires both her and this truly excellent book, which is a masterpiece of confessional literature»
Tablet
«The documentary of one woman's ordinary and yet, in her telling, wholly extraordinary life»
Erica Wagner, The Times
«A model mix of clear-eyed analysis and deep, unashamed feeling»
Sunday Times