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Freed by age from the constraints of politeness, Athill reflects frankly on the losses and gains that old age brings, and the wisdom and fortitude needed to face death. This lively narrative of events, lovers and friendships has led her to question the beliefs and customs of her own generation, and here shares with witty candour her life that she has lived with little regret. 'A little literary gem, penned by a marvellous, feisty old character...

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When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi's quirks, which at first appeared so charming and sweet, soon revealed a darker side-he was a gambler, a drinker, and a womanizer, impossible to live with but impossible to ignore. After a Funeral explores the years of their friendship, a period that culminated in Didi's suicide (in Athill's apartment). This bravura work "gives a new dim...

As a young woman, Athill was engaged to an air force pilot. "Instead of a Letter" tells how he broke off the engagement, married someone else, and, worst of all, died overseas before she could confront or forgive him.

The paperback edition of Athill's collected memoirs, including "Yesterday Morning", "Instead Of A Letter", "Stet" and "Somewhere Towards The End", which won the 2008 Costa Biography Prize. Spans the four stages of her life, her childhood, her university years, her publishing career and her old age. 'Athill tells her own story lightly and delightfully' "Daily Mail

Diana Athill's Stet is "a beautifully written, hardheaded, and generally insightful look back at the heyday of postwar London publishing by a woman who was at its center for nearly half a century" (The Washington Times). A founding editor of the prestigious publishing house Andre Deutsch, Ltd., Athill takes us on a guided tour through the corridors of literary London, offering a keenly observed, devilishly funny, and always compassionate portr...