{"product_id":"dont-look-at-me-like-that-paperback","title":"Don't Look at Me Like That - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDiana Athill\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHelen Oyeyemi\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA candid novel of love, betrayal, and friendship about a young woman who breaks with her peers, moves to London, and begins a shocking affair.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"When I was at school I used to think that everyone disliked me, and it wasn't far from true\" confesses Meg Bailey at the start of \u003ci\u003eDon't Look at Me Like That\u003c\/i\u003e. Coming of age in the mid-1940s, Meg finds herself to be out of place wherever she finds herself: She is a nonbeliever in her father's parsonage, an artistic dreamer at her stuffy boarding school, a provincial in the worldly circles frequented by her best friend Roxane and Dick, Roxane's future husband. It is only when Meg, newly graduated from art school, moves into an untidy London rooming house alive with the sounds of crying children, sparring lovers, and even foreigners, that she begins to feel at home. But ties to the past are not so easily severed, and Meg must disentangle herself from her troubled intimacy with Roxane and Dick before she can begin to start \"living in her own way.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDon't Look at Me Like That\u003c\/i\u003e is the only novel by the famed memoirist and editor Diana Athill, who died in 2019 at the age of one hundred and one. At once clear-eyed and compassionate, it is a story of making mistakes and making a life.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiana Athill\u003c\/b\u003e (1917-2019) helped André 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 memoir \u003ci\u003eStet\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the author of seven further volumes of memoirs, \u003ci\u003eInstead of a Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAfter a Funeral\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYesterday Morning\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMake Believe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSomewhere Towards the End, Alive, Alive Oh!\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Florence Diary\u003c\/i\u003e, and a collection of letters, \u003ci\u003eInstead of a Book\u003c\/i\u003e. Her only novel, \u003ci\u003eDon't Look At Me Like That\u003c\/i\u003e, was first published in 1967. In January 2009, she won the Costa Biography Award for \u003ci\u003eSomewhere Towards the End\u003c\/i\u003e, and was presented with an OBE. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHelen Oyeyemi\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eight novels, including \u003ci\u003eWhite Is for Witching\u003c\/i\u003e, which won a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award; \u003ci\u003eMr. Fox\u003c\/i\u003e, which won a 2012 Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award; and \u003ci\u003eWhat is Not Yours is Not Yours\u003c\/i\u003e, which won a 2016 PEN Open Book award. Her most recent novels are \u003ci\u003eGingerbread\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePeaces\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764462747936,"sku":"9781681376110","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bd68b5cd0e42fa0bf475dc7ba9bdf1db.webp?v=1780249028","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/dont-look-at-me-like-that-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}