Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things that Matter

What matters in the end? In the final years of life, which memories stand out? Writing from her retirement home in Highgate, London, as she approaches her 100th year, Diana Athill reflects on what it is like to be in her nineties, and on the moments in her life which have risen to the surface and sustain her in her later years.
She recalls in sparkling detail the exact layout of the garden of her childhood, a vast and beautiful park a