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I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
Penelope Lively
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Penelope Lively
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 17
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Cairo
Egypt
Penelope Low
Dame Penelope Margaret Lively
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