by Penelope Lively
I really can't pick my favorite Lively novel, but this collection of what-could-have-been vignettes is certainly up there. Lively's usual delicious prose, combined with hints of autobiography, is twisted into fiction spanning the 40s-80s. I'm not sure I can pick a favorite story or permutation of Li...
Confabulations. Exploring turning points in her life and how her life might have been if she'd taken a different turning, eg if when fleeing Egypt, they'd gone to S Africa instead of Palestine then England, if she'd got pregnant when young and single. Each self-contained diversion is opened and clos...
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