Instead of a Letter - Softcover

Athill, Diana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847084281 ISBN 13: 9781847084286

Publisher: Granta Books, 2011

Synopsis

Diana Athill's childhood was idyllic, brought up in the Norfolk countryside. Aged only fifteen, she fell in love with a young undergraduate. They travelled to Oxford, engaged to be married. Then everything fell apart in the cruellest possible way.

In this classic modern memoir, Diana Athill dissects the terrible consequences of loss and her struggle to rebuild a personality destroyed by sadness. Yet for all its unhappiness, Instead of a Letter remains a story of hope, written with the frank intelligence and lack of self-pity that have become the hallmarks of Athill's writing.

About this title

Book Description:

Stunning reissue of Diana Athill's memoir of the loss of her first great love in the second world war.

About the Author:

DIANA ATHILL was born in 1917. She helped Andre Deutsch establish the publishing company that bore his name and worked as an editor for Deutsch for four decades. Athill's distinguished career as an editor is the subject of her acclaimed memoir Stet, which is also published by Granta Books, as are five volumes of memoirs, Instead of a Letter, After a Funeral, Yesterday Morning, Make Believe, Somewhere Towards the End and a novel, Don't Look at Me Like That. In January 2009, she won the Costa Biography Award for Somewhere Towards the End, and was presented with an OBE. She lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Granta Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1847084281
• ISBN 13: 9781847084286
• Binding: Paperback