Yesterday Morning: A Very English Childhood

By Diana Athill

Book Overview

A remarkable, truthful and vivid recollection of childhood, from the author of Stet, After a Funeral, Don't Look at Me Like That and Instead of a Letter.

Here Diana Athill goes back to the beginning in a sharp evocation of a childhood unfashionably filled with happiness - a Norfolk country house, servants, the pleasures of horses, the unfolding secrets of adults and sex. This is England in the 1920s seen (with a clear and unsentimental eye) from the vantage point of England in 2001. It was a privileged and loving life: but did it equip the author to be happy?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178378816X
• ISBN13: 9781783788163
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

frank nostalgia

Diana Athill has remarkable recall for the details of a semi-idyllic, semi-horrific childhood in post-Victorian England. She writes very frankly of what it was like to be a child then (powerless, coddled, ignored, free, boarded away). And she draws many parallels with the events of her later life that are featured in her other memoirs.