Instead of a Book

Thirty years of wit, wisdom, gossip and intimacy from Diana Athill, in the first collection of her letters ever to be published. She has selected, introduced and annotated this collection herself, and the book will be beautifully produced with stylish endpapers and ribbon. The letters were written to the American poet Edward Field, and cover her final years at Andre Deutsch, the success of her own writing career, growing fame and growing old.