A review by emmkayt
Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir by Penelope Lively

3.0

Penelope Lively wrote this memoir-of-sorts at 80. It's an extended meditation on themes of memory, history, and how a single human life weaves in with the larger ebb of historical developments. She marvels at how much of one's life experiences one in fact forgets over time, thinks about the bits one remembers and why - images, scents, particular scenes. It was a pleasant, contemplative read, not one to charge through easily.