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Description: When Diana Athill, nearly forty-three and far from a household name, sat down to write Instead of a Letter, the first in her series of trailblazing memoirs, she was looking for an answer to the question “What have I lived for?” In this searching book, she recalls her child-hood on her grandparents’ magnificent estate, the teenage romance that was certain to lead to marriage, her university d...
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Description: Depicts the friendship between the author and the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years through a series of letters that include gossip about authors and mutual friends, their careers, and the art of writing.
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Description: In 1950s England, well-brought-up young women are meant to aspire to the respectable life. Some things are not to be spoken of; some are most certainly not to be done. There are rules, conventions. Meg Bailey obeys them. She progresses from Home Counties school to un-Bohemian art college with few outward signs of passion or frustration. Her personality is submerged in polite routines; even with he...
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Description: 'Anyone who believes that human relationships are important cannot fail to be moved by this book.' Daily Telegraph ..'A book which gives a new dimension to honesty, a new comprehension to love.'Vogue ..This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. ..When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly-and out of love just as fast...
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Description: An esteemed memoirist and one of the great editors in British publishing examines aging with the grace of Elegy for Iris and the wry irreverence of I Feel Bad About My Neck.
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