I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.

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• Penelope Lively:

  I rather like getting away from fiction.

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  I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my

• Penelope Lively:

  I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happ

• Penelope Lively:

  I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but frag

• Penelope Lively:

  The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the tim

• Penelope Lively:

  It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

• Penelope Lively:

  We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

• Penelope Lively:

  I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do muc

• Penelope Lively:

  I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

• Penelope Lively:

  You learn a lot, writing fiction.