Yesterday Morning A Very English Childhood

Download or read book Yesterday Morning: A Very English Childhood written by Diana Athill and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?