Join The Second Shelf and Granta to celebrate the re-issue of Diana Athill’s Don’t Look at Me Like That.

Originally published in 1967, and based on Athill’s own experiences of 1950s London, Athill’s only novel tells the story of Meg Bailey, the daughter of a poor rural vicar who goes to art college in Oxford, then moves to London. Meg builds a new life for herself in the city as an independent working woman, but in the process finds herself betraying an important figure from her past. 

To discuss the novel, Athill’s other writing, and her career as at editor at André Deutsch Ltd – where she worked with authors including Molly Keane, VS Naipaul and Jean Rhys – Lucy Scholes, The Second Shelf’s Managing Editor, will be in conversation with writer and editor Elena Lappin, and Sinéad O’Callaghan, assistant editor at Granta Publications, Athill’s publishers.

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