She offers a light-hearted explanation here for the gendered characteristics of women which, she believes, make them on average better writers and readers of fiction than men: they care more for gossip about the lives...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Jane Howard
She took four years to write this novel, working with a new agent, A. D. Peters
. Having before this written fast and easily, she now reduced her speed to a crawl, with constant rewriting...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Diana Athill
Nicholas Lezard
wrote in the Guardian that this book teaches, in every line[,] the consolations of age, the common, shareable tone of experience. Athill begins the book, in fact, with her own old age, and...
