Yesterday Morning: A Very English Childhood
A Very English Childhood
Biography & Memoir, Literary, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
| Author: | Diana Athill | ISBN: | 9781847085771 |
| Publisher: | Granta | Publication: | October 6, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Granta Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Diana Athill |
| ISBN: | 9781847085771 |
| Publisher: | Granta |
| Publication: | October 6, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Granta Books |
| Language: | English |
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?
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?
