Kate Womersley

The death of the author

Jenny Diski, now terminally ill with cancer, longs ‘to die easily’ — in contrast to her former complicated life, vividly portrayed in her challenging memoir

  • In Gratitude

    Jenny Diski

    Bloomsbury, pp. 256

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