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|title=Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time

|author=Penelope Lively

|publisher=Fig Tree

|date=October 2013

|website=http://www.penelopelively.net/

|video=d6cK2SzMnus

|summary=From the Booker Prize-winning novelist, a somewhat scattered meditation on old age and the workings of memory. Tracing a random path through her personal library of reading, experiences and possessions, she ponders whether one remains the same person all through a long life.

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Now aged 80, Penelope Lively, the Booker Prize-winning author of twenty works of fiction including ''Moon Tiger'' (1987) and ''How It All Began'' (2011), is increasingly conscious of death approaching. It may be true that, as concluded in [[Nothing to be Frightened of by Julian Barnes]], 'we cannot truly savour life without a regular awareness of extinction', but this memoir is less a ''memento mori'' than an agreeably scattered tour through Lively's life and times.

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