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Making It Up

AuthorPenelope Lively

NarratorSheila Mitchell

Duration8h 10m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Novels

PublisherIsis

VersionUnabridged

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In this piece of fiction, Penelope Lively takes moments from her own life and asks 'what if some outcomes had been otherwise?' What if her family's flight from Egypt in 1942 had taken a different route? What would her life have been like if she had become pregnant when she was eighteen? If she had married someone else? If she had become an archaeologist? If she had lived her life in America? This audiobook examines alternative destinies, choices and roads not taken.

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