Yesterday Morning: A Very English Childhood

by Diana Athill (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $3.28

  A remarkable, truthful and vivid evocation of childhood, from the author of Stet , After a Funeral , Don't Look At Me Like That and Instead of a Letter . 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 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?

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $3.28

  This work completes the circle begun by Instead of a Letter and Stet . Here Diana Athill looks back on a childhood unfashionably filled with happiness - a Norfolk country house, servants, the pleasures of horses, and the unfolding secrets of adults and sex. This is England in the 1920s, seen with an unsentimental eye from the vantage point of England in 2001. It was a privileged and loving life, of course: but did it equip her to be happy?