Making It Up (Wheeler Large Print Book Series) - Hardcover

Lively, Penelope

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1597221406 ISBN 13: 9781597221405

Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc, 2006

Synopsis

A tale based on the author's own life explores what might have happened had she made other choices at pivotal moments, such as her family's failure to escape from Egypt during World War II and a marriage to another person.

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Review

Nobody writes more astutely or affectingly about �love�... than Penelope Lively. (Jonathan Yardley, "The Washington Post") Eminently wise and amusing. ("The Boston Globe") "Making It Up" display�s� Livelys incisive prose style, her wit, and, above all, her agile imagination. ("Entertainment Weekly") Nobody writes more astutely or affectingly about [love]... than Penelope Lively. (Jonathan Yardley, "The Washington Post") Eminently wise and amusing. ("The Boston Globe") "Making It Up" display[s] Livelys incisive prose style, her wit, and, above all, her agile imagination. ("Entertainment Weekly")

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`A highly original form of fictional autobiography as well as a fascinating insight into the seemingly random nature of destiny' Daily Mail

`Clever and laugh-out-loud funny ... this book is everybody's daydreams made real and is a complete joy' Daily Express

`Exceptionally acute, well done' Scotsman

`Realistic, thoughtful, understated. These elegant "confabulations" allow Lively's talents full range ... they evoke the times she has seen and the richness of other lives as well as her own' Sunday Telegraph

`Engaging, taut and finely measured' Sunday Times

`Entertaining, absorbing reading' Literary Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1597221406
• ISBN 13: 9781597221405
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 360