Sarah Ditum

Joan Didion’s needle-sharp eye never fails

Essays spanning 1968 to 2000, written in perfectly weighted prose, cohere into a fine reflection on the business and art of writing

Joan Didion in 2017. Credit: Alamy

  • Let Me Tell You What I Mean

    Joan Didion

    4th Estate, pp. 192, £12

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