The New York Years

Patricia Highsmith's diaries and notebooks offer an unparalleled, unforgettable insight into the life and mind of one of the 20th century's most talented, complex and fascinating writers. Posthumously discovered in Highsmith's linen cupboard and edited down from 56 thick spiral notebooks to this one-volume assemblage of her diaries and notebooks traces Highsmith's mesmerising double life. Published for the very first time for the 2021 centenary of her birth.