In this powerful and compelling 'view from old age', Penelope Lively, at eighty, reports back on what she finds. There are meditations on what it is like to be old as well as on how memory shapes us.
Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize- once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. Her other books include Going Back; Judgement Day; Next to Nature, Art; Perfect Happiness; Passing On; City of the Mind; Beyond the Blue Mountains; Oleander, Jacaranda; Spiderweb; A House Unlocked; The Photograph; Making It Up; Consequences; Family Album, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel Award, and How It All Began. She was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours List, and DBE in 2012.
Fascinating, lucid . . . Authority, yes; and wit, thoughtfulness, a
tender attention to the natural world, an incisive but deeply
humane imagination: Ammonites and Leaping Fish is full of all of
these
*Helen Dunmore, The Times*
Like old age itself this book is not for sissies. Luckily for us
Lively is one of our most gifted writers . . . This is Lively at
her best
*Sunday Express*
A fascinating portrait not only of the author but of the times
through which she has lived . . . sharp, unsentimental and ruefully
funny
*Daily Telegraph*
Lively's memoir about age and the pleasures and pains of seniority
is informative, instructive, unexpected and beautifully
observed
*Vogue*
An elegant and thoughtful dissection of a subject few writers dare
dwell on
*Times Magazine*
Rich in observations and recollections. It should be read slowly
because there is much to invite reflection
*The Herald*
Other brilliant women writers (Joyce Carol Oates, Joan Didion . .
.) have written whole volumes on widowhood, but Penelope Lively's
description of that condition is all the more affecting by being
sparse . . . Will delight all those who love Lively's novels . . .
It's all enthralling: autobiography in miniature
*Daily Mail*
A superb study of memory and of her own voyage into the ninth
decade of her life . . . Lively is a compelling, vitally interested
witness to time pas
*Helen Dunmore, Observer*
Ammonites & Leaping Fish is powerfully consoling. Lively is
certainly sagacious, her words careful and freighted. But there is
girlishness here, too. Things still catch her eye, her attention.
New books. Old stories. Another day for the taking
*Rachel Cooke, Observer*
Fascinating, lucid . . . Authority, yes; and wit, thoughtfulness, a
tender attention to the natural world, an incisive but deeply
humane imagination: Ammonites and Leaping Fish is full of all of
these
*The Times*
Like old age itself this book is not for sissies. Luckily for us
Lively is one of our most gifted writers . . . This is Lively at
her best
*Sunday Express*
A fascinating portrait not only of the author but of the times
through which she has lived . . . sharp, unsentimental and ruefully
funny
*Daily Telegraph*
Lively's memoir about age and the pleasures and pains of seniority
is informative, instructive, unexpected and beautifully
observed
*Vogue*
An elegant and thoughtful dissection of a subject few writers dare
dwell on
*Times Magazine*
Rich in observations and recollections. It should be read slowly
because there is much to invite reflection
*Herald Scotland*
Other brilliant women writers (Joyce Carol Oates, Joan Didion . .
.) have written whole volumes on widowhood, but Penelope Lively's
description of that condition is all the more affecting by being
sparse . . . Will delight all those who love Lively's novels . . .
It's all enthralling: autobiography in miniature
*Daily Mail*
A superb study of memory and of her own voyage into the ninth
decade of her life . . . Lively is a compelling, vitally interested
witness to time past
*Observer Books of the Year*
Ammonites & Leaping Fish is powerfully consoling. Lively is
certainly sagacious, her words careful and freighted. But there is
girlishness here, too. Things still catch her eye, her attention.
New books. Old stories. Another day for the taking
*Observer*
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