WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST DO WHAT YOU WERE TOLD?

Jenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult, even her own cancer diagnosis. Her columns in the London R eview of Books - selected here by her editor and friend Mary-Kay Wilmers, on subjects as various as death, motherhood, sexual politi cs and the joys of solitude - have been described as 'virtuoso performances', and 'small masterpieces'.From Highgate Cemetery to the interior of a psychiatric hospital, from Tottenham Court Road to the icebergs of Antarctica, Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were T old? is ...[Read more]