Making it up
By: Penelope Lively.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Girls -- Fiction; British -- Egypt -- Fiction; World War, 1939-1945 -- Egypt -- Fiction; Egypt -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "In this fascinating new piece of fiction, Penelope Lively takes moments from her own life and asks 'what if' she had made other choices: what if she hadn't escaped from Alexandria at the outbreak of WWII? What would her life have been like if she had become pregnant when she was 18? If she had married someone else? If she taken a different job? If she had lived her life abroad? In this highly original work, Penelope Lively examines alternative destinies, choices and the moments in our lives when we could have chosen a different path... "--www.penguin.co.uk.