After a Funeral

When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didis quirks, which at first appeared so charming and sweet, soon revealed a darker side--he was a gambler, a drinker, and a womanizer, impossible to live with but impossible to ignore. After a Funeral explores the years of their friendship; a period that culminated in Didis suicide (in Athills apartment). This bravura work "gives a new dimension to honesty, a new comprehension to love" (Vogue).