Instead of a Letter

Name: Instead of a Letter
Brand: Granta
Price: 21.75 AUD

By: Diana Athill, Andrea Ashworth (Introduction by)

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Paperback | 12 April 2022

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240 Pages

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1.5 x 12.9 x 19.7

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Athill's debut, and a modern classic memoir: a moving story of love and loss, heartbreak and hope during the second world war.

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.

'Her first and still most perfect perfect book' - Literary Review

'The reader sees the transformation of the battered soul into a buoyant woman, open-minded and open-hearted' - Hilary Mantel

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. She is the author of eight volumes of memoirs - Stet, Instead of a Letter, After a Funeral, Yesterday Morning, Make Believe, Somewhere Towards the End, Alive, Alive Oh!, A Florence Diary - a collection of letters, Instead of a Book, and a novel, Don't Look At Me Like That, all published by Granta, as well as a collection of short stories, Midsummer Night in the Workhouse (Persephone Books). In January 2009, she won the Costa Biography Award for Somewhere Towards the End, and was presented with an OBE. She died in January 2019.

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