Instead of a Letter

Instead of a Letter

By Diana Athill

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

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Publisher: New York Review of Books
Publish Date: 07/25/2023
Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781681376134
ISBN-10: 168137613X
Language: English

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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 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.

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