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3.88 AVERAGE
3.88 AVERAGE
reflective
slow-paced
My fastest read in ages and thats because its so good. A collection of essays, meaning you can never get fed up of any subject.
Varied and full of life, from childhood, lovers, war, death, pregnancy and a like.
Diana has lead a true and womderful life and has a great storytelling way of phrasing her essays. I have fallen in love with her and her look on life.
Diana I salute you!
Varied and full of life, from childhood, lovers, war, death, pregnancy and a like.
Diana has lead a true and womderful life and has a great storytelling way of phrasing her essays. I have fallen in love with her and her look on life.
Diana I salute you!
From BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week:
Stephanie Cole reads from the new collection of essays by acclaimed writer Diana Athill, which is being published to mark the author's 98th birthday later on this month.
Written from the vantage point of her late nineties, Athill's essays are wise, cheering and thought-provoking. They range from gentle (her love of beautiful clothes), heartbreaking (the miscarriage of a much-wanted child) to salutary (her difficult decision to relinquish her independence and move into a care home).
In this first essay, "Post-War", Athill delights in debunking the myth that Britain in the 1940s and 1950s was a mire of dreariness. A young woman when the war broke out, peace and its aftermath was a time of joy, freedom and optimism.
Photo credit: Mark Crick
Written by Diana Athill
Read by Stephanie Cole
Abridged and Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06r4byz
Stephanie Cole reads from the new collection of essays by acclaimed writer Diana Athill, which is being published to mark the author's 98th birthday later on this month.
Written from the vantage point of her late nineties, Athill's essays are wise, cheering and thought-provoking. They range from gentle (her love of beautiful clothes), heartbreaking (the miscarriage of a much-wanted child) to salutary (her difficult decision to relinquish her independence and move into a care home).
In this first essay, "Post-War", Athill delights in debunking the myth that Britain in the 1940s and 1950s was a mire of dreariness. A young woman when the war broke out, peace and its aftermath was a time of joy, freedom and optimism.
Photo credit: Mark Crick
Written by Diana Athill
Read by Stephanie Cole
Abridged and Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06r4byz
I have enjoyed all of Diana Athill's books and hope she will publish her correspondence with Jean Rhys. This book is more of a hodge-podge than the others, but if you're still writing lively, honest prose at age 100, who cares?
Words of wisdom from a former British book editor who lived to be 101. She was somewhat of an iconoclast.
Trigger warning: Abortion/Miscarriage
Trigger warning: Abortion/Miscarriage