Why Didn’t you Just Do What You Were Told?
Jenny Diski
Jewish Life and Thoughts, Anglo-Jewry, Biog, Autobiog
Publisher Bloomsbury
ISBN 978 1 5266 2190 0
£18.99
The late Jenni Diski who died in 2016 was a true original, a fearless writer, regularly published in London Review of Books, whose subjects ranged from Highgate Cemetery, to the icebergs of Antarctica, always humorous, never what you expect.  Essays include, “Did Jesus Walk on Water Because He Couldn’t Swim?” and “I Haven’t Been Nearly Mad Enough.”