Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir

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Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir

The beloved and bestselling author takes an intimate look back at a life of reading and writing

â€œThe memory that we live with . . . is the moth-eaten version of our own past that each of us carries around, depends on. It is our ID; this is how we know who we are and where we have been.â€

Memory and history have been Penelope Livelyâ€™s terrain in fiction over a career that has spanned five decades. But she has only rarely given readers a glimpse into her influences and formative years.

Dancing Fish and Ammonites traces the arc of Livelyâ€™s life, stretching from her early childhood in Cairo to boarding school in England to the sweeping social changes of Britainâ€™s twentieth century. She reflects on her early love of archeology, the fragments of the ancients that have accompanied her journeyâ€”including a sherd of Egyptian ceramic depicting dancing fish and ammonites found years ago on a Dorset beach. She also writes insightfully about aging and what life looks like from where she now stands.

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