Yesterday Morning A Very English Childhood |
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Author:
| Athill, Diana |
ISBN: | 978-1-86207-484-2 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2002 |
Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Learning Technology
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $18.95 |
Book Description:
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Diana Athill has written three memoirs which have been acclaimed as classics for their insight, candour and wit:
Instead of a Letter,
After a Funeral, and most recently,
Stet - an editor's life. Here she goes back to the beginning, in a sharp evocation of a childhood unfashionably filled with happiness - a Norfolk country house, servants, the pleasures of horses, the unfolding secrets of adults and sex. This is England in the 1920s, seen (with a clear and...
More DescriptionDiana Athill has written three memoirs which have been acclaimed as classics for their insight, candour and wit: Instead of a Letter, After a Funeral, and most recently, Stet - an editor's life. Here she goes back to the beginning, in a sharp evocation of a childhood unfashionably filled with happiness - a Norfolk country house, servants, the pleasures of horses, the unfolding secrets of adults and sex. This is England in the 1920s, seen (with a clear and unsentimental eye) from the vantage point of England in 2001. It was a privileged and loving life: but did it equip her to be happy?