Alive, Alive Oh! Read online

  ALSO BY DIANA ATHILL

  Fiction

  An Unavoidable Delay

  Don’t Look at Me Like That

  Memoirs

  Stet

  After a Funeral

  Make Believe

  Yesterday Morning

  Somewhere Towards the End

  Life Class (omnibus)

  Letters

  Instead of a Book

  Copyright © 2004, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015 by Diana Athill

  First American Edition 2016

  First published in Great Britain by Granta Publications

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