Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter

"Diana Athill is, by her own account, a very old woman. At 98, she lives in a home for the elderly in North London. This small and lovely book is a collection of favorite memories that return to Athill at the end of her life. It is a charming book for the company alone, for the luxury of wandering in someone else’s best memories, but it is also a nimble recasting of the familiar warning: gather ye rosebuds, memento mori, carpe diem, what have you, because we do not live forever."