'This book is fiction... it is anti-memoir. My own life serves as prompt; I have homed in upon the rocks, the rapids, the whirlpools, and written alternative...
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'This book is fiction... it is anti-memoir. My own life serves as prompt; I have homed in upon the rocks, the rapids, the whirlpools, and written alternative stories...' Taking moments from her own life and asking `what if?', Penelope Lively constructs fictions about possibilities and alternative destinies. From her family's flight from Egypt in 1942 to becoming a single mother at eighteen and beyond, Lively imagines the paths not taken and the chance lives she never had...