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1783787406

After a funeral.

Author: Athill, Diana.

Publication year: 2022

Language: English

Media class: Paperback

Classification: 920.ATH

Publisher: London : Granta Books, 2022.

ISBN: 9781783787401 (pbk.) : 9.99

Notes:

Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1986.

When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and holidays, and a life of easy intimacy seemed to beckon. But Didi's sweetness and intelligence soon revealed a darker side - he was a gambler, a drinker and a womaniser, impossible to live with but impossible to ignore. With painful honesty, Athill explores the three years they spent together, a period that culminated in Didi's suicide - in her home - an event he described in the journals he left for her to read as 'the one authentic act of my life'.