Instead of a Letter

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ISBN: 9781783787432

Products specifications

Attribute name	Attribute value
Author	Athill, Diana (Y)
Pub Date	03/02/2022
Binding	Paperback
Pages	240

Publisher: GRANTA

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

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Despite her family's ailing finances, Diana Athill's childhood - spent in a lovely house in Norfolk - was blissful. In 1932, she fell in love with Paul: an undergraduate who tutored her younger brother. Within several years, she had moved to Oxford to study and they were engaged to be married. Then everything fell apart in the cruellest possible way.

Athill's debut is also her most personal: a dissection of personal tragedy and the struggle to rebuild her life amid severe disappointment and loneliness. Unfolding throughout the Second World War, Instead of a Letter is an inspiring story of love and loss, heartbreak and hope, and a testament to her strength of character - her vivacity, honesty and perspicacity.