- Published: 06/10/2011
- ISBN: 9781847084262
- 129x20mm
- 176 pages
Yesterday Morning
Diana Athill
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 unfashionably filled with happiness – a Norfolk country house, servants, the pleasures of horses, the unfolding secrets of adults and sex. This is England in the 1920s seen (with a clear and unsentimental eye) from the vantage point of England in 2001. It was a privileged and loving life: but did it equip the author to be happy?
£8.99
A joy to read from start to finish
Sunday Independent
Athill's astringent prose has the remarkable quality of making one look forward to old age
Evening Standard
Yesterday Morning is a captivating book. It is as if she had set out with a butterfly net to catch everything about her early life in an upper-middle-class English family before it - or she - vanished: the beloved grand house in Norfolk, the servants, her unhappily married parents.
Kate Kellaway, Guardian
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‘When I was at school I used to think that everyone disliked me, and it wasn’t far from true.’