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Diana Athill's memoir of a life spent working with some of the charismatic characters who have do...

Diana Athill, born in 1917, made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs; thro...

Written in an even more vivid and direct style than her celebrated memoirs, Diana Athill's letter...

I can remember in detail being hit by my first story one January morning in 1958. So begins liter...

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Diana Athill's childhood was idyllic, brought up in the Norfolk countryside. Aged only fifteen, s...

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