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A Florence Diary
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See moreA charming, vibrant diary of Diana Athill's holiday to Florence in the late 1940s.
A charming, vibrant diary of Diana Athill's holiday to Florence in the late 1940s.
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In August 1947, Diana Athill travelled to Florence by the Golden Arrow train for a two-week holiday with her good friend Pen. In this playful diary of that trip, Athill recorded her observations and adventures — eating with (and paid for by) the hopeful men they meet on their travels, admiring architectural sights, sampling delicious pastries, eking out their budget and getting into scrapes.
Written with an arresting immediacy and infused with an exhilarating joie de vivre, A Florence Diary is a bright, colourful evocation of a time long lost, and a vibrant portrait of a city that will be deliciously familiar to any contemporary traveller.
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Diana Athill's A Florence Diary captures the vibrant joy and youthful exuberance of her 1947 trip to Florence. It's praised for its vivid descriptions and keen observations, making it an ideal read for both current and aspiring travellers, as noted by the Daily Mail and Metro.
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ISBN: 9781783787425
Publisher: Granta Books
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 03 February 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Granta Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 132.0mm
Height: 182.0mm
Weight: 150g
Pages: 80
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About the Author
DIANA ATHILL was born in 1917. She helped Andre Deutsch establish the publishing company that bore his name and worked as an editor for Deutsch for four decades. She is the author of eight volumes of memoirs - Stet, Instead of a Letter, After a Funeral, Yesterday Morning, Make Believe, Somewhere Towards the End, Alive, Alive Oh!, A Florence Diary - a collection of letters, Instead of a Book, and a novel, Don't Look At Me Like That, all published by Granta, as well as a collection of short stories, Midsummer Night in the Workhouse (Persephone Books). In January 2009, she won the Costa Biography Award for Somewhere Towards the End, and was presented with an OBE. She died in January 2019.
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