A speedy read this one, started on Sunday and polished off on Monday at home where a pot of tea and a good book managed to shift a trying tension headache.
Penelope Lively selects a handful of key moments in her life, and adds a fictional spin to each scenario to explore “what might have been” for someone else in the same circumstances.
If you liked Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life, I think you’d like this.
Author’s page: Making It Up – Penelope Lively