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 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?
- ISBN10 0753197847
- ISBN13 9780753197844
- Publish Date 1 December 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 September 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher ISIS Publishing
- Imprint Reminiscence Large Print
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English