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Midsummer Night in the Workhouse

Midsummer Night in the Workhouse( )
Author: Athill, Diana
ISBN:978-1-77089-064-0
Publication Date:Sep 2011
Publisher:House of Anansi Press
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $18.95
Book Description:

A new selection of Diana Athill's beautifully written and perceptive short stories.

Book Details
Pages:208
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Short Stories (Single Author)
Author Biography
Athill, Diana (Author)
Diana Athill was born in England on December 21, 1917. She was educated at Oxford University. During World War II, she as a researcher with the BBC. She worked as an editor at Allan Wingate and then at André Deutsch. Athill started writing autobiography in her early 40s. Her memoir, Instead of a Letter, was published in 1962. Her other memoirs included After a Funeral; Make Believe; Alive, Alive Oh!; Stet; Yesterday Morning; and A Florence Diary. Somewhere Towards the End won a Costa Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other works included a volume of short stories entitled An Unavoidable Delay and a novel entitled Don't Look at Me Like That. She was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 2009. She died on January 23, 2019 at the age of 101.

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