Review 'A delight' -- LITERARY REVIEW'Sylvia Townsend Warner's heartfelt and heartbroken Diaries give the condensed account of a life at once unassuming and passionate...' -- OBSERVER'Will surely become a classic among English diaries' JOHN CAREY, -- SUNDAY TIMES Synopsis For Sylvia Townsend Warner the diaries she kept from 1927 to 1978 became the equivalent of an intimate correspondent to whom she could describe and ponder the details of her life. From her thoughts on love, friendship, writing and death to the antics of her cats and her plans for her garden, she gives us a self-portrait replete with anecdotes and rich observation. Above all, her diaries are a poignant account of her great love affair with Valentine Ackland, an affair that brought both anguish and liberation. See all Product description
M**S
Riveting reading
A superb and moving documentary of a fascinating life.
M**E
An absolute delight
Sylvia Townsend Warner was perhaps the best diarist and letter writer of the twentieth century. The diaries are enlivened by an intelligence and subtlety that you rarely find, and are models of wit and shy humor. The qualities that unfortunately only rarely surface in her fiction are there in absolute abundance in her private writing, and one comes away from them with a sense of one's own life having been enriched.
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