Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time Vendor Code_A154 Fourteen-year-old Lucky Khalil loves three

Fourteen-year-old Lucky Khalil loves three things: football

But instead of picnics in meadows

One day Eric has an encounter with a spirit and shortly afterward meets in a young lady the real live avatar of this spirit

tragedy and uncertainty

western Sicily

Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time Vendor Code_A154 Fourteen-year-old Lucky Khalil loves threeIn this charming but powerful memoir, Penelope Lively reports from beyond the horizon of old age. She describes what old age feels like for those who have arrived there and considers the implications of this new demographic. She looks at the context of a life and times, the history and archaeology that is actually being made as we live out our lives in real time, in her case World War II; post war penny pinching Britain; the Suez crisis; the Cold War