{"product_id":"9781408879948-in-gratitude","title":"In Gratitude","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e_______________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the most inventive, original and disturbing writers of her generation'\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring … \u003ci\u003eIn Gratitude \u003c\/i\u003eamounts to the inner \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003emonologue of a highly intelligent, furiously funny, traumatised woman' \u003c\/b\u003e- Helen Davies,\u003ci\u003e Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'She deserves our unfeigned admiration, not for her bravery or her struggle, or any irrelevant tosh like that, but for writing so well' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e_______________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn August 2014, Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given ‘two or three years’ to live. Being a writer, she decided to write about her experience – and to tell a story she had not yet told: that of being taken in, aged fifteen, by the author Doris Lessing, and the subsequent fifty years of their complex relationship. Splicing childhood memories with present-day realities, Diski paints an unflinching portrait of two extraordinary writers – Lessing and herself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJenny Diski died a week after the publication of \u003ci\u003eIn Gratitude\u003c\/i\u003e. A cerebral, witty, dazzlingly candid memoir, it is her final masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943968288865,"sku":"9781408879948","price":9.11,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27156577.jpg?v=1721549934","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781408879948-in-gratitude","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}