She had withdrawn her former assumption that she had written her last book, but felt nervous for some time about showing the new manuscript, written in her retirement home, to a publisher. Her editor at...
Literary responses
Diana Athill
Publisher Bella Lacey
praised this book as so clear-sighted, so precise, so just, so funny, forthright and entertaining.
Flood, Alison. “Literary grand dames stealing the book fair limelight”. The Guardian, p. 5.
Roy Hoffman
in the New York Times Book Review, who called it [m]ore a series of...