A riveting memoir about betrayed love, loss, and finding redemption and purpose in creative work.
Yet for all its unhappiness, Instead of a Letter remains a story of hope, written with the frank intelligence and lack of self-pity that have become the hallmarks of her writing..
In this classic modern memoir, Athill dissects the terrible consequences of loss and her struggle to rebuild a personality destroyed by sadness.
Then everything fell apart in the cruelest possible way.
They became engaged and traveled to Oxford.
At the age of fifteen, she fell in love with a young undergraduate.
Diana Athill\'s childhood in the Norfolk countryside was idyllic.
A riveting memoir about betrayed love, loss, and finding redemption and purpose in creative work