Ammonites and Leaping Fish

''Sharp, unsentimental and ruefully funny. A fascinating portrait not only of Lively but of the times through which she has lived'' Daily Telegraph

''Clever and poignant . . . there is much to enjoy. This is Lively at her best'' Sunday Express

''The twentieth century shook the world: it sobers me to have been one of those to see it through''

Ten years ago, Penelope Lively, then eighty, wrote this pow...