AUTHOR QUOTE
" Memory is continually created,
a story told and retold, using jigsaw pieces of experience.
It's utterly unreliable in some ways, because who can say
whether
the feeling or emotion that seems to belong to the recollection actually belongs
to it rather than being available from the general store of likely emotions we
have learned? Memory is not false in the sense that it is willfully bad, but
it is excitingly corrupt in its inclination to make a proper story of the past."
BIOG
Jenny Diski was born in 1947 in London, where she has lived most of her life.
She is the author of eight novels and two books of travel/memoir, two collections
of essays and a volume of short stories. Her journalism has appeared in the
Mail on Sunday, the Observer and the London Review of Books, amongst other
publications.
I work in a shed at the bottom of the Poet's garden. More
palatial than a shed. More palatial than a palace. Windows
and glass doors, wood and white paint. Warm. The trains to
Kings Lynn run along the end of the garden. There are bird
feeders on the fence opposite my desk, in front of the shed
where I can watch from my armchair and hanging on the raddled
old apple tree that has hardly any leaves left on it now but
is an excellent staging post for blue tits, sparrows, chaffinches,
starlings, blackbirds, robins, collared doves and once a goldfinch
to make a dash for the seed con-tainers. Mostly I watch the
birds come and go. Sometimes I work. If anyone asks, I explain
that I stare at the birds in order to work, but it's just as
likely to be the other way around.
REPRESENTATION
Jenny Diski is represented by Derek Johns of the AP
Watt agency.
Derek Johns may be contacted by post at
AP Watt,
20 John Street,
LONDON
WC1N 2DR
by phone on 0207 405 6774
or by email at apw@apwatt.co.uk.
Enquiries about foreign rights should be addressed to Linda
Shaughnessy; film, theatre and stage rights to Rob Craitt at
the same postal or email address above.
You can contact Jenny Diski by clicking
here. She will or
won't reply.
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