Somewhere towards the end  
Diana Athill
W.W. Norton & Company
Winner of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography and a New York Times bestseller: a prize-winning, critically acclaimed memoir on life and aging —“An honest joy to read” (Alice Munro).Diana Athill is one of the great editors in  British publishing. For more than five decades  she edited the likes of V. S. Naipaul and Jean  Rhys, for whom she was a confidante and  caretaker. As a writer, Diana Athill has made  her reputation for the frankness and precisely  expressed wisdom of her memoirs. Now in her  ninety-first year, "entirely untamed about both  old and new conventions" (Literary  Review) and freed from any of the  inhibitions that even she may have once had,  Athill reflects candidly, and sometimes with  great humor, on the condition of being old—the  losses and occasionally the gains that age  brings, the wisdom and fortitude required to  face death. Distinguished by "remarkable  intelligence...[and the] easy elegance of her  prose" (Daily Telegraph), this short,  well-crafted book, hailed as "a virtuoso  exercise" (Sunday Telegraph) presents  an inspiring work for those hoping to flourish  in their later years.