Making It Up

“Nobody writes more astutely or affectingly about [love]… than Penelope Lively.” –Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

“Making It Up display[s] Lively’s incisive prose style, her wit, and, above all, her agile imagination.” — Entertainment Weekly

“[A] highly original form of fictional autobiography as well as a fascinating insight into the seemingly random nature of destiny” –– Daily Mail (UK)

“[Lively’s] writing has always tackled deep questions of identity, memory, love and loss . . . These elegant ‘confabulations’, as she calls them, allow Lively’s talents full range. Intelligent, limpidly well-written and full of human understanding, they evoke the times she has seen and the richness of other lives as well as her own.” — Sunday Telegraph (UK)