Books by Diana Athill
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review 1: I got on very well with the open honest voice that relates these memories. Diana Athill recounts for us her childhood as a member of a 'poor' branch of a rich Norfolk family. She is very aware of the benefits her extended family brought to her but also the injustices implied. She...
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review 1: I have sort of been aware of this book for a while when it was published it was quite widely marketed and as she is a fascinating women lucky and privileged enough to work in the publishing in what must have been its glory days, I put it on my reading list. It came to the forefr...
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review 1: One of the things I shared with my father was a love of horses and from my early teens our big day out was Royal Randwick Racecourse on Boxing Day. Dressed to the nine’s in my new dress, hat, gloves, stockings and shoes, (often Christmas gifts from my godmother) off we went to t...