I read this for the Virago Modern Classics group's November 2018 author read and liked it very much. It's a posthumous collection edited by White's elder daughter; and while I didn't that much care for most of the fiction and short autobiographical pieces (except for "The Most Unforgettable Characters I've Met," about her two maiden great-aunts, which I loved), her actual autobiography, which made up the largest part of the collection, was wonderful.

This autobiography only covered the first four years of White's life (yeah, as we all know, White had a writer's block!) but it was a wonderful set of very detailed childhood recollections which reminded me somehow of Muriel Spark's Curriculum Vitae.

Highly recommended for lovers of White – but not at all recommended unless you've read at least the four novels or much of As Once in May will fly way over your head. ( )

As fragments of Antonia Whites writing I was expecting it to be flat and dry only reading it out of a duty and desire for a complete collection. Of course as unpublished work it isn’t as polished as anything that that appeared as a novel but it does contain some wonderful gems and examples of White’s talent. ( )