Yesterday Morning

Reviews / Votes

A joy to read from start to finish * Sunday Independent * Athill's astringent prose has the remarkable quality of making one look forward to old age * Evening Standard * Yesterday Morning is a captivating book. It is as if she had set out with a butterfly net to catch everything about her early life in an upper-middle-class English family before it - or she - vanished: the beloved grand house in Norfolk, the servants, her unhappily married parents. -- Kate Kellaway * Guardian * Athill's honesty in describing her feelings as a young girl and old woman makes her memoir universal. * The Independent * Athill's writing is like a really good apple: crisp, juicy, at once sweet and tart. She describes youthful games and discoveries in a voice that manages to combine delighted immediacy and ironic distance....The book feels at times like a grab bag, a collection of all the odds and ends Athill traces to her early years * The New York Times Book Review * A compulsively readable memoir of a golden age * The Times * Athill has added importantly to those works of literature which illuminate the vagaries of human emotion. * Daily Telegraph *