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A review by emilybh
In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
‘The real events that disrupt the everyday, even sometimes cataclysmically, so that it seems that nothing can ever be the same again, erode, weather, change the underlying landscape, but no matter how transparent the platform you stand on, showing nothing but the void below, it hadn’t yet actually broken and thrown me to the depths.’
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Jenny Diski’s dark, honest and funny essays examine the pain of ill-health, preparing to die and coming to terms with the debt we owe those close to us. I loved her dry tone and interrogation of her tricky childhood and adolescence, the domestic conflict she encountered and contributed to whilst living in Doris Lessing's house, contrasted with the warmth of her co-habitation with the Poet. The final poem and Afterword written by her daughter were moving.
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Jenny Diski’s dark, honest and funny essays examine the pain of ill-health, preparing to die and coming to terms with the debt we owe those close to us. I loved her dry tone and interrogation of her tricky childhood and adolescence, the domestic conflict she encountered and contributed to whilst living in Doris Lessing's house, contrasted with the warmth of her co-habitation with the Poet. The final poem and Afterword written by her daughter were moving.