Full name: Instead of a Letter: A Memoir

Author: Diana Athill Year: 1962 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393338577 0393338576

A classic memoir by the author of the New York Times bestseller Somewhere Towards the End. As a young woman, Diana Athill was engaged to an air force pilot--Instead of a Letter tells how he broke off the engagement, married someone else, and, worst of all, died overseas before she could confront or forgive him. Evoking perfectly the picturesque country setting of her youth, this fearless and profoundly honest story of love and modern womanhood marks the beginning of Athill's brilliant literary career. . Similar books: Dreaming by Carolyn See A Backward Glance by Edith Wharton Sleeping with Cats by Marge Piercy Name All the Animals by Alison Smith Yesterday Morning by Diana Athill Driving with Dead People by Monica Holloway The Florist's Daughter by Patricia Hampl Please Excuse My Daughter by Julie Klam Look Back with Love by Dodie Smith Circling My Mother by Mary Gordon Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick Moose by Stephanie Klein Dancing Fish and Ammonites by Penelope Lively Her Last Death by Susanna Sonnenberg All That Is Bitter & Sweet by Ashley Judd Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill A Fort of Nine Towers by Qais Akbar Omar Faith Under Fire by Roger Benimoff How Dare the Sun Rise by Sandra Uwiringiyimana Unremarried Widow by Artis Henderson