Instead of a Letter

Athill's debut, and a modern classic memoir: a moving story of love and loss, heartbreak and hope during the second world war.

About the author

Diana Athill was born in 1917. She helped André Deutsch establish the publishing company that bore his name and worked as an editor for Deutsch for four decades. Athill's distinguished career as an editor is the subject of her acclaimed memoir Stet. She is the author of seven further volumes of memoirs, Instead of a Letter, After a Funeral, Yesterday Morning, Make Believe, Somewhere Towards the End, Alive, Alive Oh!, A Florence Diary, and a collection of letters, Instead of a Book, all published by Granta. Her only novel, Don't Look At Me Like That, was first published in 1967. In January 2009, she won the Costa Biography Award for Somewhere Towards the End, and was presented with an OBE. She died in January 2019.

Product details

• Authors: Diana Athill, Diana (Y) Athill, Athill Diana
• Assisted by: Ashworth Andrea (Introduction)
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9781783787432
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-743-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 173 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; England, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Memoirs, Autobiography: business & industry, Second World War, 1939-1945, publishing industry, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs