The New York Times bestseller: a prize-winning, critically acclaimed memoir on life and aging —"An honest joy to read" (Alice Munro). Hailed as "a virtuoso exercise" (Sunday Telegraph), this book reflects candid...

A classic memoir by the author of the New York Times bestseller Somewhere Towards the End. As a young woman, Diana Athill was engaged to an air force pilot—Instead of a Letter tells how he broke off the engagement, married someone ...

A remarkable, truthful and vivid recollection of childhood, from the author of Stet, After a Funeral, Don't Look at Me Like That and Instead of a Letter. Here Athill goes back to the beginning in a sharp evocation of a childhood unfas...