Listen free for 30 days
Listen with offer
-
Midsummer Night in the Workhouse
- Selected Stories by Diana Athill
- Narrated by: Diana Athill
- Length: 3 hrs
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.
Add to basket failed.
Please try again later
Add to wishlist failed.
Please try again later
Remove from wishlist failed.
Please try again later
Adding to library failed
Please try again
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£0.00 for first 30 days
LIMITED-TIME OFFER
99p for the first 3 months
Offer ends May 1st, 2024 11:59PM GMT.
Terms and conditions apply.
£7.99/month after 3 months. Renews automatically.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Midsummer Night in the Workhouse
Narrated by:
Diana Athill
Buy Now for £7.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Summary
This new selection of Diana Athill’s stories, Midsummer Night in the Workhouse, provides a subtle counterpoint to her memoirs because the focus of the stories is autobiographical: although not in the first person, they are about facets of a life which Diana knew through and through, either because she was, as she has said, writing about herself (the story about her first kiss or the one about an Oxford undergraduate and her boyfriend) or because she had sharply observed those around her (an Englishwoman on holiday having an affair, a married couple bickering at a dinner party). Diana herself has recently recorded these perceptive, touching and funny stories.
©2011 Diana Athill (P)2011 Persephone Books
Critic reviews
"These stories reveal the same wry, mischievous and essentially humane sensibility that will be familiar to readers of Athill's memoirs....she ranks among the very best writers of late 20th century English short stories." ( Ruth Scurr, The Times)
More from the same
What listeners say about Midsummer Night in the Workhouse
Average customer ratingsOverall
Performance
Story