Penelope Lively - "A Childhood Perceived"

[@dpauni]

thanks for this wonderful document. from Argentina, land of Jacaranda

[@chisty4436]

Perfect upload thank you

[@complexlittlepirate3589]

I love this because (1) I love Penelope Lively's writing (2) the interviewer is delightful (3) my grandparents met in Alexandria during the war (she had grown up there, he was a British soldier) and to hear the novelist's memories of her childhood in Egypt is a fascinating counterpoint to the stories I was told of that place and time.

[@complexlittlepirate3589]

Also, I must say that at some points in her story I can really hear the tears behind the words, the tears of the child she had been 😞