one Of The Most Inventive, Original And Disturbing Writers Of Her Generation'' - Daily Telegraph''diski Does Not Do Linear, Or Normal, Or Boring In Gratitude Amounts To The Inner Monologue Of A Highly Intelligent, Furiously Funny, Traumatised Woman'' - Helen Davies, Sunday Times''she Deserves Our Unfeigned Admiration, Not For Her Bravery Or Her Struggle, Or Any Irrelevant Tosh Like That, But For Writing So Well'' - Guardianin August 2014, Jenny Diski Was Diagnosed With Inoperable Lung Cancer And Given Two Or Three Years To Live. Being A Writer, She Decided To Write About Her Experience And To Tell A Story She Had Not Yet Told: That Of Being Taken In, Aged Fifteen, By The Author Doris Lessing, And The Subsequent Fifty Years Of Their Complex Relationship. Splicing Childhood Memories With Present-day Realities, Diski Paints An Unflinching Portrait Of Two Extraordinary Writers Lessing And Herself.jenny Diski Died A Week After The Publication Of In Gratitude.