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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Synopsis: Recounts the story of the author's involvement with Didi, an Egyptian exile in London who lured her into a state of infatuation and eventually tortured her with his irreversible drive to suicide 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. Athill's distinguished career as an editor is the subject of her acclaimed memoir Stet, which is also published by Granta Books, as are five volumes of memoirs, Instead of a Letter, After a Funeral, Yesterday Morning, Make Believe, Somewhere Towards the End and a novel, Don't Look at Me Like That. In January 2009, she won the Costa Biography Award for Somewhere Towards the End, and was presented with an OBE. She lives in London. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Seller Inventory # 56